China Telecom Qingyang Computing Center data center
Qingyang, Gansu, China · Qingyang market · location approximate to district level
Also listed as 中国电信庆阳智能算力中心, 中国电信“东数西算”国家枢纽庆阳算力中心, 中国电信庆阳云计算大数据中心, China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent Computing Center and 中国电信庆阳算力园.
China Telecom Qingyang Computing Center is a data center project in Qingyang, China, operated by China Telecom Qingyang Branch (中国电信股份有限公司庆阳分公司). It is operational and expanding. The only published capacity figure is 135 MW of total facility power. IT load will be lower.
Latest change on record: moved to expanding in October 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
Planned IT load
135 MW
Total facility power
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
China Telecom Qingyang Branch (中国电信股份有限公司庆阳分公司)
Telco
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started
This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.
Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.
China, 2026-10-12. China coverage is a pilot of one cluster, Zhongwei in Ningxia, entered on 12 October 2026 from Chinese-language primary and state press sources. Other Chinese hubs are not yet covered, so no China total here describes the country. Many Chinese projects publish rack counts and no megawatts. ArusGrid records the rack count and leaves capacity blank rather than convert it.
Where it sits
Qingyang holds 8 active projects with 395 MW of planned IT load between them, and China Telecom Qingyang Computing Center ranks second by planned capacity. Of those, 3 are operational and expanding, 4 are under construction and 1 is announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Qingyang, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
China Telecom has 12 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including China Telecom Smart Cloud Base, Huailai Park (中国电信智云基地怀来园区), China Telecom Smart Cloud Base, Zhangbei Park (中国电信智慧云基地张北园区) 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 Qingyang computing park. The named user of the compute is Hongxin Electronics (弘信电子) / Gansu Suihong (reported, unconfirmed).
The build is phased. Cloud computing big data center phase 1 (1,664 racks) is operational with a 2023 target; Intelligent computing center phase 1 (building 1#, 2,376 rack positions) is commissioning with a 2026 target; Further buildings of 7 planned is under construction. The dated record runs from operational on 31 October 2023 to operational and expanding in October 2024. Power comes from 绿电聚合项目 (green power aggregation project) through a green tariff. Cooling uses direct liquid cooling.
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 12 public sources for this project, the latest dated 10 September 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
How well evidenced is it
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Named funderNo
Disclosed client (reported)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes
AI workloads
StatusConfirmed
China Telecom says it deployed 21,000 GPU cards with 16,000 P at the operating center (Nov 2024). The new park uses liquid cooling with PUE below 1.1.
Access to AI chips
GradeLicence required for a party
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.
US licence required for this destination as enforcedYes
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectYes
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo
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
Phases
Cloud computing big data center phase 1 (1,664 racks) · OperationalSize not published, target 2023
Intelligent computing center phase 1 (building 1#, 2,376 rack positions) · CommissioningSize not published, target 2026
Further buildings of 7 planned · Under constructionSize not published
Stage history
Who is behind it
OperatorChina Telecom Qingyang Branch (中国电信股份有限公司庆阳分公司) · Telco
Who uses the compute
Runs compute here · GPU cloudHongxin Electronics (弘信电子) / Gansu Suihong · reported, unconfirmed
as of 2023-09-11
Hongxin said it will help build a 2,000 PFLOPS compute hub in Qingyang with China Telecom.
Source · Hongxin Rises After Joining Two Key AI Data Center Projects in Northwest China (Yicai Global, 2023-09-11)
Colocation price per kW of IT load per month
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.
Project team
Construction supervisor甘肃省建设监理有限责任公司 · CNY 1.37m · Apr 2026 Reported source ↗ Supervision for 中国电信甘肃庆阳智能算力中心二期土建工程.
Design and build contractor华信咨询设计研究院有限公司 · CNY 107.43m · Apr 2026 Reported source ↗ EPC for 中国电信甘肃庆阳智能算力中心二期土建工程 (No.2 data centre building, 23,298 sqm), in consortium with 甘肃省通信产业工程建设有限公司. Results announced 2026-04-13.
Land
Site174.47 mu · Oct 2024 Confirmed source ↗ Power supply
Dedicated substationOct 2024 Confirmed source ↗ Two substation buildings are among the 11 planned buildings. No voltage or MVA given. · Applies to the whole campus.
Green tariff绿电聚合项目 (green power aggregation project) · Aug 2026 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗ China Telecom's Qingyang node reaches 100 percent green power consumption through a green power aggregation project. · Same passage says the node has over 70,000P of compute built and PUE held at 1.192. The article does not name the supplier. · Applies to the whole campus.
Why we think so. The passage appears in a China Telecom Gansu event report about its Qingyang green computing base. Its 70,000P figure is well below the 185,000P Qingyang cluster total, so it refers to China Telecom's node rather than the whole cluster.
Water and cooling
CoolingDirect liquid cooling · design PUE <1.1 Reported source ↗ Liquid cooling in machine rooms (2026); phase 1 (2023) used modular design with high-efficiency indirect evaporative cooling
Coolingdesign PUE 1.2 Confirmed source ↗ Phase 1 design PUE below 1.20.
Sources checked 2026-10-19
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