The Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, along with the Department of Economy and Information Technology, the Department of Science and Technology, the Energy Administration, and the Communications Administration, have jointly issued the "Several Policy Measures for Advancing the Construction of Computing Power Networks in Sichuan Province (Trial)". This policy framework explicitly supports data centers participating as power market entities in market-based trading for electricity energy, ancillary services, and demand response.

The newly introduced measures define the distinct positioning of various regions within Sichuan's computing power infrastructure layout, establishing an overall structure of "one zone, one belt, and two nodes". Within this structure, the "belt" refers to the development of the Panxi-Northwest Sichuan integrated computing and electricity development corridor. This initiative supports Liangshan, Ganzi, Aba, and Panzhihua in leveraging their clean energy resources to coordinate the deployment of large-scale "source-grid-load-storage" integrated computing facilities. The goal is to establish a computing and electricity integrated development belt that primarily accommodates non-real-time and transferable computing needs, such as model training, big data analytics, film rendering, and data backup.

Focusing on the creation of intensive and efficient computing industry parks, Sichuan will construct zero-carbon computing parks that integrate computing and electricity. The province encourages the aggregation of hydro, wind, and solar storage resources in the Panxi-Northwest Sichuan region, with concentrated zero-carbon computing park developments planned for locations including Xinduqiao in Ganzi, Hongyuan in Aba, and Yanyuan in Liangshan. The policy supports computing and electricity integration projects and computing parks in adopting a green power direct connection supply model (for both single and multiple users), with the proportion of surplus electricity fed back into the grid permitted to be relaxed to 20%. Additionally, support is provided for multi-user green power direct connections. Operators of computing and electricity integration projects, limited to a single investment entity, will receive additional new energy allocation capacity equivalent to twice the scale of the directly supplied new energy configuration.

For new energy projects consumed locally, grid-connected electricity is temporarily subject to system operation fees and three price difference charges, including compensation cost allocation for coal-fired unit operations, the price difference allocation between gas-fired power generation grid prices and market prices, and inter-provincial purchase price difference fund allocation. Self-generated and self-consumed electricity is temporarily exempt from policy-driven cross-subsidy new gains and losses. To strengthen the guarantee of green power supply, the policy supports key computing parks in adopting dual or multi-circuit power supply to ensure safe, reliable, and stable electricity provision. Through the provincial online monitoring system for energy consumption at key energy-using units, the policy calls for monitoring key information such as energy consumption and efficiency of computing infrastructure. Newly built or expanded data centers must complete the configuration and integration of monitoring equipment simultaneously, while existing data centers will complete this configuration and integration in batches.

Regarding the reduction of electricity costs, the policy explicitly supports data centers participating as power market entities in market-based trading for electricity energy, ancillary services, and demand response. It aims to optimize the wholesale-to-retail transmission mechanism and encourage data centers to flexibly adjust their electricity usage periods based on market price signals, thereby reducing electricity costs through market-based methods. Local governments are encouraged to prioritize retained electricity for computing enterprises in accordance with relevant regulations. For ten-thousand-card cluster computing and electricity integration projects within restricted grid sections that are already completed or have substantially commenced construction by the end of 2027, high-reliability power supply fees will be waived.

In terms of green power consumption certification, the policy encourages computing enterprises to sign multi-year green electricity trading contracts with renewable energy generation companies, continuously expanding the scale of green electricity and green certificate trading. It also supports the ongoing traceability of green electricity transactions and consumption accounting, the proper transfer of green certificates for existing hydropower, and the provision of green electricity consumption lists for computing enterprises. The policy further aims to facilitate computing centers in achieving the national annual green electricity consumption ratio targets set by the state.