The 2025 National People's Congress Government Work Report mentioned: Stimulate the innovation vitality of the digital economy. Continue to promote the "artificial intelligence +" action and better combine digital technology with manufacturing advantages and market advantages.

The digital economy is the main economic form after the agricultural economy and the industrial economy. It takes data resources as the key element, modern information networks as the main carrier, and the integrated application of information and communication technology and the digital transformation of all factors as important driving forces. It is a new economic form that promotes a greater unity of fairness and efficiency.

The development of the digital economy is also a process of rapid development of emerging technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.

This article mainly discusses the status of computing power in the digital economy and the value of computing power in supporting the development of the digital economy.

Computing power is an important infrastructure for big data, blockchain, metaverse, and artificial intelligence

As technology gradually affects social life, it can be foreseen that cloud computing will play an important fundamental role along with the vigorous development of AI, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain. Computing power has surpassed the scope of traditional computing power and, as the "electricity" of the digital economy era, has become a strategic basic resource to support the development of cutting-edge science and technology.

For example, deep learning in artificial intelligence requires computing support of hundreds of trillions of times per second, the consensus mechanism of blockchain requires a distributed computing network as a trust basis, and the real-time rendering of the metaverse requires edge computing nodes to provide millisecond-level responses. These breakthrough technologies are essentially computing-intensive technological paradigms.

IDC and other institutions predict that China's intelligent computing power will reach 1037.3EFLOPS in 2025 and 2781.9EFLOPS in 2028. This is related to the growth of global data volume and diversified computing power requirements (for example, edge computing power can achieve scenario-based deployment, and quantum computing power can break through the classical limit) .

Computing power is also becoming the core production factor of the digital economy. This is reflected in the fact that the global computing power scale will reach 6.8ZFLOPS by 2025, and each unit of computing power investment will drive 3-5 times the economic value added. Big data, blockchain, metaverse, and artificial intelligence are all fields or scenarios where the digital economy occurs.

Computing power supports the development of digital economy

Before the emergence of decentralized cloud computing power, small and medium-sized enterprises in the fields of big data, blockchain, metaverse, artificial intelligence, etc. faced high equipment costs, uneven computing power supply and resulting waste, data and privacy leakage, etc. Decentralized cloud computing power, through elastic computing power supply, enables small and medium-sized enterprises to use computing power at low cost for AI reasoning training, graphics rendering, big data analysis and other capabilities. While lowering the threshold for using computing power, it further ensures data security.

It can be said that the digital economy has been further developed due to the support of decentralized cloud computing power. According to the "2022-2023 Global Computing Power Index Assessment Report", for every 1 point increase in the computing power index, the added value of the digital economy and GDP will increase by 3.6‰ and 1.7‰ respectively.

With the breakthroughs in new-generation technologies such as quantum computing and edge computing, technical elements in various fields are forming a deeply intertwined ecological network - blockchain builds a new trust mechanism, artificial intelligence optimizes algorithm model training, and the metaverse colonizes three-dimensional interactive space, and all of this is built on a powerful distributed computing power base.

Conclusion: The value of decentralized cloud computing power

Liu Liehong, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said, "With the deepening of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, global scientific and technological innovation has been unprecedentedly intensive and active. In particular, the rapid development of new technologies represented by artificial intelligence is profoundly changing the economic and social operation mode, creating new production methods and lifestyles, and is expected to cultivate a pillar industry worth more than one trillion US dollars, empowering thousands of industries and becoming an important direction and key driving force for economic development."

At present, my country's total computing power ranks second in the world, but there is still a contradiction between the tight supply of computing power resources and the ineffective use of computing power resources. The rapid growth of computing power scale and the mismatch between supply and demand are the problems facing the future development of domestic computing power.

Decentralized cloud computing may be an effective solution to this contradiction. By combining AI, blockchain, encryption technology and privacy computing, decentralized computing cloud can access idle computing resources across the country and dynamically match them to computing power demanders through AI.

In the future, computing power will penetrate into every link of scientific and technological innovation like water and electricity, and become a key indicator for measuring a country's digital competitiveness. It will be as easy for small and medium-sized enterprises to obtain computing power as it is for them to obtain water and electricity. Through the decentralized computing power cloud, cutting-edge fields such as AI big models, Web3.0, metaverse, big data, and digital twins will be further developed, realizing what Liu Liehong, director of the Data Bureau, said was "creating new production methods and lifestyles."