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China AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for China using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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Chronological Entries

Tencent Tianjin AI Data Center (China)
Tianjin, Tianjin, China
2023
Operational300 MW

Tencent operates a 300 MW cloud and AI campus in Tianjin that underpins the company's large-model development and nationwide cloud services. The facility uses proprietary high-density liquid cooling to cut energy costs by roughly 30 percent

DeepSeek — AI Training Cluster
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2023
Operational100 MW

DeepSeek's AI training cluster in Hangzhou, operated by parent company High-Flyer Quant (幻方科技), gained global attention in early 2025 when its DeepSeek-R1 and V3 models matched GPT-4-class performance at a fraction of the training cost — re

SenseTime Lin-gang AIDC (China)
Shanghai, Lin-gang Special Area, Shanghai, China
2022
Operational

SenseTime brought its Lin-gang Artificial Intelligence Data Center online in January 2022 to power the company's SenseCore supercomputing platform. Built with a ¥5.6 billion investment, the hyperscale cluster delivers more than 2.5 exaFLOPS

Baidu AI Cloud — Yanqi Lake Data Center
Yanqing, Beijing, China
2021
Operational600 MW

Baidu's Yanqi Lake AI Cloud data center in Yanqing District, Beijing, is one of China's largest purpose-built AI training facilities. The facility powers training of Baidu's ERNIE (文心) family of large language models, which compete with GPT

ByteDance Volcengine — Inner Mongolia AI Training Cluster
Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
2021
Operational600 MW

ByteDance's Inner Mongolia data center cluster, operated through its cloud arm Volcengine, is one of the largest AI training facilities in China. Inner Mongolia is a preferred location for Chinese hyperscalers due to ultra-cheap coal and wi

Huawei Cloud — Guizhou AI Data Center
Guiyang, Guizhou, China
2021
Operational400 MW

Huawei Cloud's Guizhou data center cluster in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, is a major hub for training the Pangu (盘古) large model family, which includes language, vision, and scientific AI models. Guizhou was designated China

Alibaba Cloud — Zhangbei Super Data Center
Zhangbei, Hebei, China
2020
Operational500 MW

Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei Super Data Center sits on the windswept Bashang Plateau in Hebei Province, 260 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The campus is specifically designed for AI training workloads powering the Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) large