Huawei Cloud CEO: AI Infrastructure Buildout Just Beginning, Cost Reduction Critical

In an interview after the 2026 AIDC Industry Development Conference and 3D Data Center Site Meeting, Zhou Yuefeng, Huawei board member and CEO of Huawei Cloud, said the curtain has just risen on AI infrastructure construction, and reducing overall industry costs is crucial. Huawei Cloud is the cloud services brand of Huawei.

Earlier, Guo Nan, deputy director of the China Electronics Standardization Institute, noted in a speech that the average utilization rate of data centers nationwide is about 58%, and some intelligent computing centers fall below 30%, urging the industry to focus on effective and usable computing power.