Alibaba Cloud Western Cloud Computing Center and Data Service Base is a data center project in Chengdu, China, operated by Alibaba Cloud (阿里云). It is under construction. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: moved to under construction on 17 March 2021. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Money committed.
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Tianfu (Chengdu) holds 6 active projects with 0 MW of planned IT load between them, and Alibaba Cloud Western Cloud Computing Center and Data Service Base has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 3 are operational, 2 are operational and expanding and 1 is under construction. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Tianfu (Chengdu), and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Alibaba has 4 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including Alibaba YRD Intelligent Computing Base (阿里巴巴长三角智能计算基地), Alibaba Cloud Ulanqab Data Center and Alibaba Cloud Xuanhua Data Centre (阿里云宣化数据中心). It sits on the Jianzhou New City, Chengdu Eastern New Area campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The dated record runs from announced only on 13 November 2020 to under construction on 17 March 2021. The money on record is CN¥50bn as of March 2021, the announced investment.
The US export control position for advanced AI chips in China, as of 7 October 2026, is recorded as “Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026”. ArusGrid holds 8 public sources for this project, the latest dated 10 September 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.
The signing announcement cites AI chips and heterogeneous computing. No GPU deployment confirmed.
A party to this project (its operator, that operator's group, a funder, or a confirmed client) is headquartered in China or Macau or has an ultimate parent there. US rules require a licence for advanced AI chips destined to such entities wherever they are located. This describes the rule and says nothing about whether a licence was sought, granted or refused. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026 · Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026 (2026-10-07) source
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
The figure covers several facilities.
No published price band exists for China, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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