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The 2026 "Data Elements x" Competition Hubei Division is currently accepting registrations. Last year, a total of 11 projects from Hubei Province won awards in the national finals. Among them, the "AI Carbon Manager+" platform project jointly built by GCL Zhidou and Zhongtan Asset Management helps enterprises achieve refined energy management while turning saved carbon emissions into real money in the market, enabling both cost savings and profit generation. How exactly is this achieved? Let's take a look at the report.

As a representative of high-end manufacturing, semiconductor display factories are truly major energy consumers. China Star Optoelectronics uses over 1 billion kWh of electricity annually. After deploying GCL Zhidou's "AI Carbon Manager+" platform, it connected more than 150,000 equipment data points, collecting energy consumption data such as water, electricity, and gas in real time, installing a "smart brain" for the massive equipment cluster.

Wang Hui, General Manager of the Dual Carbon Business Division of GCL Zhidou Technology Co., Ltd. and General Manager of Nengtan Octopus (Hubei) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.: There are about 100 agents driving over 500 functional modules. Through external weather changes, equipment age, production capacity, and energy procurement costs, we achieve full-domain control from the energy consumption side and the consumption side, forming a complete closed loop from data perception to problem detection to equipment shutdown.

Chen Hui, General Manager of Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.: It's like the factory's "energy manager" and "carbon emission consultant." Wherever there is overuse or waste, it can accurately detect and promptly adjust. The flow of every kilowatt-hour of electricity and every ton of water is under digital monitoring, no longer an "unclear account." It brings the company approximately 9.5 million yuan in economic benefits annually.

Through precise regulation of energy systems, optimization of production processes, and introduction of clean energy such as photovoltaics, China Star Optoelectronics reduced carbon emissions by over 30,000 tons in 2025. Calculating the "energy consumption account" helps enterprises reduce costs and save expenses, while accurately calculating "carbon emissions" generates revenue. This "AI Carbon Manager+" platform, by deeply embedding the official accounting rules of the Hubei carbon market, transforms the previously time-consuming and labor-intensive manual carbon inventory into a precise and efficient "minute-level" response.

Zeng Jia, Manager of the Green Industry Investment Department of Hubei Zhongtan Asset Management Co., Ltd.: All the energy, electricity, and gas data of China Star Optoelectronics can be used to calculate its carbon emissions within 15 minutes. It also provides suggestions for carbon market trading, including whether the current allowance is in surplus or deficit, and whether the current carbon price is at a high or low level. We also push trading strategy recommendations to them.

As a compliance enterprise in the Hubei regional carbon market, China Star Optoelectronics has shifted from simply reducing carbon to "meeting standards" to actively operating carbon assets. In 2025, the Wuhan China Star base traded 326,200 tons of carbon allowances, with a transaction value of 13.9156 million yuan. In 2025 alone, the company had a surplus of 950,000 yuan in carbon allowances after compliance settlement.

Zeng Jia, Manager of the Green Industry Investment Department of Hubei Zhongtan Asset Management Co., Ltd.: Turning carbon reduction from an original environmental protection cost into real profit growth for the enterprise also provides a replicable Hubei model for the green transformation of the high-end manufacturing industry.

Recently, the industrial AI enterprise Gtrontec, incubated by TCL Group, and Sino Carbon Asset Management,  jointly invested to establish OCTACARBON, was officially established. This is the first AI enterprise in China initiated by provincial state-owned capital, focusing on large models in the energy-carbon vertical field, and also a key move for Gtrontec's 'AI + Manufacturing' capability to strategically extend into the green and low-carbon track. In the future, OCTACARBON will continue to deeply cultivate the integrated innovation of 'AI + energy-carbon', adopt the business model of 'investment traction + AI operation', provide one-stop energy-carbon management solutions for industrial enterprises, help the green transformation of industries, and promote the implementation of the 'dual carbon' strategy.