If it weren't for receiving a call from Li Zekai, Lin Feng almost forgot that when he was in Hong Kong, he had made an appointment with this "little superman" to meet in Beijing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The two agreed to meet at the Beijing Club Bar.

Although the older generation of wealthy people in Hong Kong want to cheer for Ms. Chen Lihua of Fuhua Group, most of them are members of the Chang'an Club.

But Li Zekai has always been a maverick, and he joined the Beijing Club, which brings together a large number of business elites from emerging industries and many embassies.

Speaking of which, the so-called "Four Great Centers in Beijing", after Lin Feng became famous, they also sent him invitations to join the club.

After all, a young talent with a net worth of more than 10 billion yuan and is recognized as a billionaire should belong to one of them in their opinion.

Lin Feng didn't bother to join these top clubs that were regarded as "mysterious" and "luxurious" by ordinary people.

In fact, with the advent of the Internet era, the structure of the wealth class, especially China's top wealth class, is rapidly changing, and the rise of new entrepreneurs represented by IT and the Internet has subverted the old generation of wealthy people represented by large state-owned enterprises, foreign company executives, real estate developers, etc. in the early years.

In Lin Feng's impression, these emerging bigwigs on the Internet have almost rarely joined these "top clubs".

They are all keen to play their own circles!

Ma Yun set up a Jiangnan Club on his own, and later became the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club.

Robin Li and Ma Huateng are both "classmates" of the Huaxia Alumni Association.

Robin Li is also a member of the Taishan Club, an organization of the older generation of private entrepreneurs, perhaps because he was the first to rise up in BAT, and he was regarded as a representative of the Internet at that time.

Lin Feng thought, perhaps, in the future, he will do something himself.

It's kind of fun to be the boss yourself and play with a group of people.

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Li Zekai's visit to Beijing this time is mainly to communicate with China Netcom about the sale of part of PCCW shares, and in addition, PCPD, a subsidiary of Yingke, is also ready to take some land in Beijing.

I think of my previous life, after 2012, Li Ka-shing sold off mainland assets and cashed out hundreds of billions of dollars when he "ran away".

For Li Zekai's interest in taking the land at this moment, Lin Feng could only shake his head.

This shrewd "trader" is accustomed to buying low and selling high, and with the Li family's brand behind him, he never suffers a loss.

However, in recent years, PCCW's share price has declined, and Li Zekai has been saddled with a bank bridging loan of up to US$12 billion due to the business miracle of "snake swallowing elephants", and has to sell 50% of the shares of Hengtong Group (Reach) and 60% of the shares of CSL to Telstra, the main backbone cable of Hong Kong Telecommunications, to Telstra, and then sell the remaining 40% of the shares of CSL to Telstra in 2002, completely withdrawing from the mobile telecommunications market.

PCCW's share price has been declining for the past two years.

In such a situation, Li Zekai must find new and imaginative projects to increase the stock price.

At this time, China Netcom, which was preparing to be listed in Hong Kong, entered the sight of Li Zekai and Li Ka-shing behind him.

The Li family and China Netcom have a strategic cooperation, Netcom can establish a relationship with the Hong Kong consortium headed by the Li family through the acquisition of part of PCCW's shares, and then China Netcom is listed on the main board of Hong Kong, it can be strongly supported by the Hong Kong Li consortium, so as to enter the market at a high price, which is a win-win situation.

The matter is still in operation and is being kept secret.

But although Li Zekai only said "visit Netcom" lightly, Lin Feng, who was familiar with the history of his previous life, thought of this matter and knew it better than him.

However, this matter has nothing to do with Lin Feng, and he has heard about it.

Li Zekai's words revealed that he came to Beijing this time to make a special appointment with Lin Feng to meet, but it did not surprise him.

Li Zekai wants to make PCCW a popular shareholder!

After missing Tencent, Li Zekai has not given up on the Internet, and he has seen a more promising popularity.

This is something that has never happened in the history of previous lives.

In Lin Feng's memory, it seems that after failing in the two projects of Tencent and TOM, the Li family has no interest in the Internet, but focuses on investment in telecommunications, energy, ports and other fields.

He remembered the thin old man who was standing quietly in the corner of the balcony at the racecourse that day.

Is this just Li Zekai's own thoughts, or is there that Li Chaoren behind to encourage him?

Fengxing has a good cash flow now, and if it is just running on its own, it is not short of money, but if it wants to continue to acquire, layout, and expand business lines, it is still short of money.

Li Dong has proposed that bonds can be appropriately issued in the private market as a means of capital operation.

But Lin Feng does not plan to raise funds, and any dilution of equity now is a big loss for him in the future.

"I'm sorry, Li Sheng, Fengxing has no financing plan for the time being, if you need financing, I will definitely find you as soon as possible!" Lin Feng shook his head and smiled.

"Okay...... , I am very optimistic about the popularity, if there is a chance in the future, you must remember to inform me. Li Zekai is very sorry.

After finishing business, the two chatted casually.

Speaking of PCCW's business in Beijing, Li Zekai inadvertently mentioned: "In fact, we have cooperated with Zhongguancun Technology Co., Ltd. in Zhongguancun Data Technology Co., Ltd. very early on, and we have laid out Internet basic services such as IDC business, but unfortunately the development is not ideal......."

His casual words made Lin Feng suddenly startled.

He thought of a direction he had been ignoring all along—the data center!

After returning from rebirth, he clearly knows that the BAT giants have competed in the mobile Internet era, and have changed from the initial business competition to the battle for core assets such as data, cloud, artificial intelligence and future technologies.

Data is the top priority, and cloud computing is the core application of mobile Internet in the basic server.

Both of these are inseparable from the most basic data center!

IDC (Internet Data Center) is the infrastructure of the Internet, which mainly provides large-scale, high-quality, safe and reliable professional server hosting, space rental, network wholesale bandwidth, ASP and EC services for Internet content providers (ICPs), enterprises, media and various websites.

IDC services are provided by large telecom service providers such as China Telecom and China Unicom, comprehensive professional service providers such as VNET and Tsinghua Wanbo, and many small and medium-sized data centers in various places.

A large online game company like Fengxing has thousands of server groups and computer rooms all over the country, which are hosted by IDC service providers in various places. Server hosting and bandwidth fees alone are a huge cost per month.

In addition, some IDC service providers also provide CDN services (content delivery networks), which can avoid bottlenecks and links on the Internet that may affect the speed and stability of data transmission as much as possible, so that content transmission is faster and more stable.

In the future, if Fengxing wants to carry out online video, live broadcast and other services, it will be a money-burning business that consumes huge bandwidth costs, and it is necessary to have excellent CDN services to reduce bandwidth costs.

However, it is no wonder that Lin Feng has not paid attention to it all along, after all, he does not know much about technology, and Wang Hao is in charge of this part.

Lin Feng has always put all his thoughts on business development and the competitive layout with competitors such as Shanda and Tencent.

This aspect has been neglected all along.

From the experience of BAT in the previous life, hundreds of millions of users generate a large amount of data every day, and diversified businesses are consuming huge bandwidth and traffic all the time.

Therefore, whether it is to ensure the security of core data, the layout of cloud computing, or to better control and reduce costs, BAT has embarked on the road of self-built data centers.

Tencent has integrated data centers in 20 regions and 31 availability zones around the world, with more than 700 CDN nodes.

Its servers in China are distributed in 58 data centers in 13 cities across the country, including large data centers in Tianjin, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

With a capacity of more than 200,000 servers, the Tianjin Binhai data center is one of the largest in Asia.

With a total investment of US$1 billion, the data center in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area covers an area of 150 acres (100,000 square meters), with an initial scale of 100,000 servers and will eventually be built into a large-scale cloud computing data center with a scale of 300,000 servers.

Baidu has built data centers in Beijing, Guangzhou, Changshu and other places, and a large-scale data center built in Yangquan, Jin Province, Robin Li's hometown, at a cost of 4.7 billion, with more than 160,000 servers installed.

Alibaba has established 7 data centers in Zhangbei, Qiandao Lake, Shenzhen and other places, and 5 data centers are under construction, managing more than 500,000 servers. ……

Lin Feng knows that self-built data centers are the way that Fengxing must take in the future!

However, the data center is definitely a heavy asset investment, often billions of dollars, the purchase of bandwidth, computer room area is a hard investment, even if the server hardware can be lowered because of large-scale procurement, with the current capital reserves, it is simply not enough to support such a scale of investment.

You can only start with a small data center for the time being, and continue to cooperate with professional IDC service providers.

Lin Feng began to fall into thought......

If you want to build a data center, the first data center is of course placed in the capital, so that you can take advantage of Zhao Xinyang's visit to the east wind to ask for a piece of land in the Yizhuang Development Zone in the south of the capital to deploy a small data center. I believe that for such an investment project, the city will definitely grant land.

There is also the problem of non-interoperability between the north and the south telecommunications.

The second data center is naturally placed in Shanghai, just before the popularity in Zhangjiang bought a piece of land, is building an office building, this period Zhangjiang land is still quite rich, take the opportunity, and then buy a piece nearby, just to build a small data center. Not to mention anything else, the future increase of this land alone is a sure deal!

Before Fengxing raises large-scale financing or goes public, it can only deploy two data centers for the time being.

The real place to spend money is still to come......

However, even now, popular music, online games, and FF voice are already big servers and bandwidth users, thinking of the outbreak of social networks and the popularity of video websites in 05, Lin Feng feels that his head is big.

It's all a money-burning business!

Lin Feng felt that he needed to seriously consider a question - should he invest in or acquire an IDC company or CDN company?

VNET?263 Data Center?

Or is it I.T.