General Electric Company announced China National Petroleum Corporation will install five of GE's ecomagination-qualified, Jenbacher cogeneration systems at a new data center that CNPC is building in the Beijing district of Changping. The new power facility will be the cogeneration plant built in China that will meet an industrial data center's on-site cooling and heating requirements. Powered by five of GE's 3.34-megawatt (MW) J620 Jenbacher cogeneration units, the 16.7-MW combined cooling and heating power plant will offer a total efficiency of up to 85% to minimize the data center's energy costs.

The power plant's electricity also will support the regional grid.