In the computer room of the Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, rows of machines are flashing with lights, constantly outputting powerful computing power. Since the beginning of this year, many enterprises and research institutions have been accelerating the application of artificial intelligence technology and the deployment of large models, and the demand for computing power is increasing. The average load of the computing center now reaches about 60%, and the peak can reach 90%, "said the person in charge of the operation of Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center. Since 2025, with the continuous popularity of big models such as DeepSeek, China's AI related industries have entered a new stage of development. In this process, computing power is the foundation for the continuous development of artificial intelligence and one of the key engines for activating new quality productivity. The Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center is the first artificial intelligence computing center in Shandong Province, with an initial construction of 100 PFlops computing power and a computing speed of 1 billion times per second. The intelligent computing center has cooperated with more than 300 enterprises, universities, and research institutions such as Haier, Hisense, and Ocean University, providing strong computing power support for fields such as smart ocean, safe city, smart transportation, industrial quality inspection, intelligent manufacturing, and smart power. The reporter visited and learned that the current mainstream artificial intelligence big models are built on massive amounts of data and computation. During the training process of big models, billions of scale parameters are often mobilized, and the huge demand for computing power accelerates the construction and layout of new computing infrastructure. Recently, after on-site inspection by an expert group, the Jinan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center project has passed the completion acceptance. The computing power scale of this project reaches 1030 PFlops, with the ability to provide computing power, data, algorithms, and services throughout the entire chain. Since its completion in August last year, the project has undergone trial operation and has been running steadily. It has provided computing power services to leading technology enterprises, research institutions, and small and medium-sized enterprises, and will provide strong support for the development of the local artificial intelligence industry in the future. As a national pilot zone for innovative applications of artificial intelligence, Jinan has a solid foundation for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and has obvious advantages in terms of computing power support, data resources, industrial ecology, and talent guarantee Liang Jiameng, Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Office of Jinan City, said that Jinan has built and put into use the National Supercomputing Jinan Center, and is upgrading and transforming data centers such as the National Health and Medical Big Data North Center. By building a diverse heterogeneous computing power matrix, the integration and coordinated development of traditional supercomputing and intelligent computing have been achieved, providing strong support for the development of the artificial intelligence industry. In recent years, the scale of computing power in Shandong Province has grown steadily. In 2024, the scale of computing power in use will be about 11.34 EFlops, 1.68 EFlops more than that in 2023. Relying on national level Internet backbone direct connection points, Jinan and Qingdao have built two core areas of low latency data centers. Various computing centers in the province can support cutting-edge industrial applications such as intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving, gene sequencing, and drug research and development. They can also provide various forms of convenient services for the general public, such as artificial intelligence customer service, virtual digital human guidance, AI tutoring and distance education, intelligent logistics and distribution, etc Qi Lin, Deputy Director of Shandong Provincial Big Data Bureau, said. (New Society)