China Telecom Smart Cloud Base, Huailai Park (中国电信智云基地怀来园区) is a data center project in Zhangjiakou, China, operated by China Telecom (中国电信). It is operational and expanding. It is planned for 150 MW of IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as expanding on 1 April 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
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Huailai holds 8 active projects with 1,294 MW of planned IT load between them, and China Telecom Smart Cloud Base, Huailai Park (中国电信智云基地怀来园区) ranks 4th by planned capacity. Of those, 2 are operational, 5 are operational and expanding and 1 is under construction. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Huailai, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
China Telecom has 12 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including China Telecom Smart Cloud Base, Zhangbei Park (中国电信智慧云基地张北园区), China Telecom Qingyang Computing Center and China Telecom Cloud Computing Chongqing Base (中国电信云计算重庆基地), Shuitu. It sits on the China Telecom Smart Cloud Base Huailai Park. The named user of the compute is Tianyi Cloud (天翼云, China Telecom) (reported, unconfirmed).
The build is phased. Phase 1, 2 data centres, 3,600 high-power racks is operational; Phase 2, 3,000 high-power racks is under construction. The stage was recorded as operational and expanding on 1 April 2026. The money on record is CN¥3.2bn as of August 2026, the published figure.
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 3 public sources for this project, the latest dated 28 August 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Described as one of Hebei's largest intelligent computing centres serving Tianyi Cloud AI computing (C114, Aug 2026).
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
as of 2026-08-28
C114 says the park hosts Tianyi Cloud and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei AI computing business.
Source · 河北三大运营商，在算力产业已有哪些布局？ (C114通信网, 2026-08-28)
The figure covers the whole campus.
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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