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China Unicom Greater Bay Area Hub (Shaoguan) Data Centre

Shaoguan, Guangdong, China · Shaoguan market · location approximate to city level

China Unicom Greater Bay Area Hub (Shaoguan) Data Centre is a data center project in Shaoguan, China, operated by China Unicom Guangdong (中国联通广东分公司). It is operational. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 48,000 racks. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 25 November 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
Not published
Total facility power
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
China Unicom Guangdong (中国联通广东分公司)
Telco
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Verified
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

Shaoguan holds 11 active projects with 200 MW of planned IT load between them, and China Unicom Greater Bay Area Hub (Shaoguan) Data Centre has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 4 are operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 3 are under construction, 1 is being commissioned and 2 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Shaoguan, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

China Unicom has 9 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including China Unicom Zhongwei Cloud Data Center, China Unicom (Huailai) Big Data Innovation Industrial Park (中国联通(怀来)大数据创新产业园) and China Unicom Southwest Data Center (Chongqing Shuitu). It sits on the Shaoguan data centre cluster start-up zone, Zhenjiang campus alongside China Mobile Greater Bay Area (Shaoguan) Data Centre. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The build is phased. Phase 1 is operational with a 2025 target; Phase 2 is announced. The dated record runs from under construction on 1 August 2022 to operational on 25 November 2025. The money on record is CN¥19bn as of May 2023, 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 13 public sources for this project, the latest dated 3 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 clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Four custom AI computing buildings are fully signed and delivered in batches from Q3 2026 to H1 2027, with over 20,000P expected by end 2026 (TMTPost, Jul 2026). Clients are not named.

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

Phase 1 · OperationalSize not published, target 2025
Phase 2 · AnnouncedSize not published

Stage history

2022-08-01Under construction · m.sfccn.com
2025-11-25Operational · xinhuanet.com

Who is behind it

OperatorChina Unicom Guangdong (中国联通广东分公司) · Telco

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2023-05CN¥19bn

The figure covers the whole campus.

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
Design and build contractor中建三局 (lead of consortium) · CNY 1,045,000,000m · Jul 2023 Confirmed source ↗
Phase 1 EPC: data centre, power centre, network management building, about 123,900 sqm, 28,800 racks of 2.5 kW
Land
Site66,667 sqm · Aug 2022 Reported source ↗
Phase 1 approx 100 mu, ~12万 m2 GFA, 9 buildings; 28,800 2.5kW racks by 2025; total investment ~48亿元 Source states 100 mu; converted at 666.7 sqm per mu.
Water and cooling
Cooling Reported source ↗
Cooling method not stated. The source gives a comprehensive PUE as low as 1.248 for the park, which may be an operating figure rather than a design value.

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. 总投资约215亿!粤港澳大湾区枢纽韶关数据中心集群起步区首批项目集中开工 (南方财经网, 2022-08-02)
  2. 占地110亩!韶关这个国家级数据中心8月开工 (澎湃新闻, 2023-05-19)
  3. 广东联通:打造5A级智算基础设施,筑牢粤港澳大湾区“第一算力引擎” (央广网, 2025-06-12)
  4. 用AI联通 | 算力破局 全国布局! (新华网, 2025-11-25)
  5. 中国联通韶关数据中心:预计年底总算力规模突破20000P (钛媒体, 2026-07-16)
  6. 总投资约215亿!粤港澳大湾区枢纽韶关数据中心集群起步区首批项目集中开工 (21世纪经济报道, 2022-08-02)
  7. AI的风吹向粤北,大湾区唯一集群如何“织网”|“逐鹿算网”实地调研韶关篇 (财联社, 2026-08-03)
  8. 中建三局联合体中标中国联通粤港澳大湾区枢纽(韶关)数据中心项目一期工程EPC总承包 (中国建筑股份有限公司, 2023-08-07)
  9. 中国联通粤港澳大湾区枢纽(韶关)数据中心项目一期工程封顶首批超3000个机架投产在即 (新浪财经, 2024-08-05)
  10. 第五届粤港澳大湾区(广东)算力产业大会在韶关举行 (科技日报, 2026-06-13)
  11. 全维进阶!中国联通2026算力跑出“加速度” (通信产业报, 2026-08-04)
  12. 独家!运营商AIDC基建投资监测:中移三大工程领衔 8月招标金额182亿 (C114通信网, 2026-09-03)
  13. AI的风吹向粤北,大湾区唯一集群如何“织网”|“逐鹿算网”实地调研韶关篇 (财联社 (网易号), 2026-08-03)

Same campus, Shaoguan data centre cluster start-up zone, Zhenjiang

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.