Huawei Digital Power Summit at MWC2025: Green ICT for a Shared Win in the Fully Intelligent Era

Huawei Digital Power Summit at MWC2025: Green ICT for a Shared Win in the Fully Intelligent EraDuring Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC2025), Huawei hosted a Digital Power Summit themed "Green ICT for a Shared Win in the Fully Intelligent Era." The summit brought together global operators, leading enterprises, industry leaders, and experts to delve into the new opportunities presented by the fully intelligent era and share their cutting-edge perspectives and insights

Huawei Digital Power Summit at MWC2025: Green ICT for a Shared Win in the Fully Intelligent Era

During Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC2025), Huawei hosted a Digital Power Summit themed "Green ICT for a Shared Win in the Fully Intelligent Era." The summit brought together global operators, leading enterprises, industry leaders, and experts to delve into the new opportunities presented by the fully intelligent era and share their cutting-edge perspectives and insights. The forum gathered numerous industry elites to discuss how to address the challenges of climate change and explore sustainable pathways towards green and low-carbon development.

Yang Yougui, Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of the Global Marketing and Service System for Digital Power, delivered a keynote speech titled "Enabling Operators to Win in the Carbon Neutral Era." He began by highlighting that despite significant achievements in carbon emission reduction in recent years, the climate crisis remains a severe challenge for humanity. The telecommunications industry, a high-energy-consuming sector, accounts for 600 million tons of carbon emissions, representing 2% of global emissions, underscoring the immense pressure operators face in the carbon neutrality process.

Yang further analyzed the three major challenges faced by telecom operators on their path to carbon neutrality: immense emission reduction pressure, persistently high energy consumption, and soaring energy costs. He emphasized that Huawei Digital Power is committed to integrating digital technologies and power electronics to provide full-scenario low-carbon solutions for operators, helping them transform from mere energy consumers into energy consumers, producers, and enablers, thereby achieving sustainable development.

Yang presented several successful case studies demonstrating the practical effectiveness of Huawei Digital Power solutions. In Pakistan, Huawei provided operators with a site-integrated photovoltaic and energy storage system (PV/ESS), enabling green electricity transformation at customer sites. This resulted in a 96% reduction in oil consumption per site, and a large-scale green transformation of thousands of sites is expected to reduce energy operating expenses by 38%. In the Czech Republic, Huawei assisted operators in leveraging the same site energy storage system to extend backup power time, ensuring business continuity, while also participating in the electricity market to increase revenue. In Finland, Huawei helped operators aggregate energy storage from sites, homes, and businesses to participate in the frequency regulation service of the electricity market, significantly boosting business revenue. In Inner Mongolia, China, Huawei rapidly completed an AIDC (AI Data Center) upgrade through subsystem decoupling, enabling the customer to successfully launch large model services.

Yang concluded by stating that Huawei Digital Power has helped ICT industry customers generate 2.28 billion kWh of green electricity and save 81.6 billion kWh, equivalent to a reduction of 39.86 million tons of carbon emissions and the planting of 54.46 million trees. These figures clearly demonstrate the significant effectiveness of Huawei Digital Power solutions in driving the industry's green and low-carbon transformation.

Michel Fraisse, Huawei's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Site Power Europe, delivered a speech focusing on the construction of site power infrastructure. With continuous network development, operators face contradictions between business growth and surging energy consumption, service interruptions due to site power outages, and increased ESG risks due to insecure energy facilities. Therefore, ensuring sustainability and security is paramount when deploying site power infrastructure.

To address these challenges, Huawei launched the industry's first SingleSitePower solution. This solution achieves intelligent synergy between "energy-wireless-grid," supporting "one-time deployment, ten-year evolution," helping operators build more resilient, greener, and safer site power infrastructure, effectively enhancing the stability and reliability of site power.

Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Huawei's Global Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Digital Power, delivered a keynote speech titled "Building an Intelligent Computing Power Base to Ensure the Steady Operation of the Digital World." He noted that the accelerating popularization of AI applications has fueled a boom in data center construction, but also brought new challenges such as security, uncertainty, and high power density.

Huawei proposed three principles for building AI data centers: "secure and reliable, elastic and agile, green and low-carbon." Leveraging strong technological innovation capabilities, professional consulting and design capabilities, a global ecosystem of partners, and full-lifecycle professional services, Huawei has developed an end-to-end AIDC overall solution to help operators gain a leading edge in the fully intelligent era.

The summit also launched two lithium battery white papers. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Huawei jointly released the world's first white paper, "White Paper on Lithium Batteries for Communication Sites." This white paper advocates for "high-quality lithium batteries," emphasizing that batteries not only need excellent performance parameters but also the establishment of an end-to-end safety system, including high-quality design, electrical/thermal/mechanical protection, high-quality testing and certification, high-quality production/manufacturing/delivery, and full lifecycle management. The white paper delves into safety issues related to lithium battery applications in communication sites, sharing the latest research findings and practical experience in global lithium battery safety, providing important guidance for promoting the safe, reliable, and efficient application of lithium batteries in the telecommunications industry.

A second white paper, "White Paper on Safe Application of Lithium-ion Batteries in Data Centers," was also released. This white paper aims to promote the standardized and scaled application of lithium-ion batteries in the data center industry, building a solid safety line for the stable operation of data centers. The white paper suggests that data centers should use lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and proposes technical requirements for enhancing the inherent safety of batteries. Regarding lithium-ion battery deployment, it recommends prioritizing remote deployment to ensure isolation from the main building housing the equipment room. If remote deployment is not feasible, when deploying within the equipment room, automatic sprinkler systems, water spray, or fine water mist automatic fire suppression systems should be used to maximize the protection of data center stable operation.

Reyna Ubeda, an engineer in the ITU's Energy Efficiency, Smart Energy and Circular Economy Research Group, noted that the ITU's standardization arm is developing standards to improve the environmental efficiency of the information and communication technology sector. High-quality and safe lithium batteries are crucial for achieving more efficient energy storage and use at telecom sites, which will help reduce the overall carbon footprint of ICT operations.

The successful holding of this forum provided a valuable platform for exchange and learning for global operators and related industry chain enterprises, jointly promoting the development of green ICT and contributing to the arrival of the fully intelligent era.

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