On the shoreline, the yacht deck is busy with a large number of crews at the moment, the submersible has been lowered, and several sailors are in the water.

Luo Sheng had already left the deck and was discussing technical issues with several key researchers in a room inside the yacht.

"Submarine data centers can revolutionize cloud computing if they work well in terms of technology, operations, economics and environmental protection." Luo Sheng looked around at several senior technical research experts in the same room.

A senior engineering technician said: "It's not easy, no one has done it before, there is no experience to follow, you can only explore it yourself, it requires a lot of trial and error research, and it will inevitably lead to a result, that is, a huge amount of research and development funds and time investment." ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "Of course, this is groundbreaking, and it should be so." Cloud computing is the core strategy of the company, and our [Nebulas Star-Cloud] solution currently has no competitors in the industry. ”

Luo Sheng formulated a three-step strategy for this project, that is, three major phases.

The first stage of work is to do a lot of related research and model demonstration, that is, the preliminary preparatory work, which belongs to the theoretical research stage;

The second phase is the pilot phase, which focuses on operating a single pod with low-power use, deployed to a depth of no more than 100 meters and no more than 15 nautical miles from land, and is designed to demonstrate up to five years of lights-out operation, i.e. a five-year warranty. The first test of a prototype underwater data center is on the coast of the East China Sea, which will certainly be powered by a land-based power grid at this time.

The third stage is the formal application stage, by which all the technical precipitation of the submarine data center has been quite mature and can be fully deployed.

The eastern part of China has a long coastline of 18,000 kilometers, and the developed regions are concentrated around this 18,000 kilometers of coastline, and from a global perspective, most of the population is concentrated in the three continents of Eurasia and North America in the north temperate zone.

Luo Sheng's goal is very simple, the first phase of the main attack on the mainland, the full deployment of submarine data centers will be concentrated in the three sea areas, investment in the construction of the Bohai data center to radiate the entire Bohai Rim Economic Belt, investment in the construction of the East China Sea data center to radiate the Yangtze River Delta Economic Belt, investment in the construction of the South China Sea data center to radiate the southern Pearl River Delta Economic Belt.

These three economic circles are arguably the most prosperous economic zones in China, and they happen to be on the periphery of the coast, making them the best choice for building super-giant submarine data centers.

The domestic deployment was completed, and only then did it expand overseas.

Prior to this, whether it was Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur under the helm of Luo Sheng, its strategic focus was mainly on overseas European and American markets.

But times are different, and the general environment is quietly changing, which is a problem that must be considered as a multinational technology group.

The era that followed was an era of great changes unseen in a century, when China began to move step by step to the center stage of the world, while the West began to decline.

Whether the strategic center of gravity is to the west or east, Luo Sheng can certainly vote with his feet.

There is no doubt that the motherland in the period of rapid rise, not the West that is in decline, in the words of the great man, is to walk on two legs, in parallel with double regulations, the road is stable, and it will not fall.

Therefore, from now on, whether it is the domestic market or the overseas market, it is best to go hand in hand.

Only by firming up such a strategy, not to say that it can win but at least it can be undefeated, even if the overseas market is frequently suppressed by the West in the future, or even completely lost, it will not die, relying on the huge domestic market scale, no matter how European and American countries suppress it, but it will definitely not be able to die.

As long as you don't die, you can make a comeback.

Luo Sheng, as the helmsman of the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology, is looking forward to the best while expanding aggressively, and at the same time, he must also consider the worst plan, and even if the worst result occurs, he can turn the tables against the wind, so that he can be invincible, which is a situation that a qualified helmsman must consider.

After spending most of the day at sea, Luo Sheng returned to land in the afternoon of the same day.

The new project of the submarine data center also soon entered the R&D demonstration stage under his leading decision, and the initial R&D budget was 122 million yuan, which seems to be very unattractive for Bluestar Technology Group, which has always started with billions.

In fact, this is not the case, and it would not be considered that this is the case if it were known that the budget was for the first phase of theoretical research.

The road is step by step, the first stage does not require too much budget, and when the second phase begins, the budget scale will soar, and during the full deployment of the third stage, it will be tens of billions of investment.

The submarine data center project has not been officially disclosed.

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Time flies, in the closing stage of 2008, Luo Sheng withdrew from the company's cumbersome operation and management, and spent 80% of his daily work time on technology research and development, which can be said to be full of technology.

At this time, Luo Sheng was a professional and technical developer, and he easily switched from an entrepreneur to a research developer.

And time passed little by little, and 2009 officially ushered in, but the arrival of the new year is not very friendly to today's world.

Entering 2009, it ushered in the worst moment since the outbreak of the financial crisis, but at this moment, just when 2009 arrived, another American company that also provides cloud services, Salesforce (SAFTSE), announced the financial results of the previous year, pushing the long-dormant cloud services to the forefront of the industry.

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Whiteness Headquarters.

"What do you say? $1 billion? ”

At this moment, Mr. Li, the head of Baidu, looked at the chief operating officer who came to report to him with a shocked face, this news was very surprising to him, and it was also a little embarrassing.

"Yes, according to the last year's earnings report released by Salesforce, their cloud service revenue exceeded a staggering $1 billion. Bluestar Technology, which is recognized as the number one player in cloud computing services in the industry, has not disclosed financial information since entering the field of cloud computing services, but the other party's investment has been increasing. ”

Speaking of which, the COO of Baidu added: "And after I went to investigate, I found that Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have not released financial information on cloud computing, but they are surprisingly consistent in expanding the scale of investment in cloud computing services." ”

After speaking, he secretly glanced at Mr. Li, but after a moment, the latter muttered to himself: "How can this be ......?"

The five of them were full of embarrassment when they said it, and this amazing news reminded him of the comments on cloud computing services at the forum summit three years ago.

Mr. Li's speech said that he wanted to pour a basin of cold water on cloud computing, but two or three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and he never thought that this basin of cold water would be thrown on his face.

The same news was also sent to Teng Xun's little brother's desk, and he didn't expect this to be the result, and he also concluded that it would take at least hundreds or even thousands of years to think about it.

As a result, only three years have passed, less than three years to be exact, two and a half years.

It is rumored that the cloud service revenue of an American company is as high as 1 billion US dollars, which is not the number one player in this field, but what about IT giants such as Bluestar Technology, Google, and Microsoft?

None of them disclosed the financial information of specific cloud services, as if a tacit consensus had been reached.

Now, they are making a lot of money and frantically grabbing market share.

If it weren't for the disclosure of Salesforce's financial results, the world would still be in the dark.

Data show that in the second half of 2008 last year, when the economy was extremely sluggish, Google, Microsoft, IBM and other North American IT giants quietly increased their investment in the field of cloud services, with an average investment growth of about 30%.

If there is no prospect here, how can these tech giants make such a massive additional investment?

Salesforce's annual report data disclosure, the industry was shocked!

The global media rushed to report on it, and the global tech community was shocked by the shocked jaws.

Cloud computing was pushed to the forefront overnight, and the media of good things at this time also poured salt on Baidu and Teng Xun's wounds, and the news from three years ago was dug up and frantically whipped corpses.

Recently, Brother Xiao Ma and Mr. Li don't want to watch it, and they want to beat people when they see it.

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