Also listed as 阿里巴巴乌兰察布数据中心, 阿里云乌兰察布, 阿里巴巴数据, Alibaba Cloud Inner Mongolia cloud computing center and 扶摇智算中心.
Alibaba Cloud Ulanqab Data Center is a data center project in Ulanqab, China, operated by Alibaba Cloud (阿里云). It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: moved to expanding on 1 September 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.
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Ulanqab holds 18 active projects with 1,262 MW of planned IT load between them, and Alibaba Cloud Ulanqab Data Center has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 4 are operational, 4 are operational and expanding, 1 is under construction, 2 are at the land and permitting stage and 7 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Ulanqab, 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 Western Cloud Computing Center and Data Service Base and Alibaba Cloud Xuanhua Data Centre (阿里云宣化数据中心). It sits on the Alibaba Ulanqab campus. The named user of the compute is XPeng Motors (reported, unconfirmed).
The dated record runs from operational on 8 June 2020 to operational and expanding on 1 September 2026. The money on record is CN¥3bn as of September 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 6 public sources for this project, the latest dated 12 October 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.
Alibaba launched Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instances on 2026-08-12, sold first from Ulanqab (10jqka, 2026-08-13). Staff told Beijing News that no accelerator card is idle.
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 2023-09-01
Alibaba Cloud and XPeng jointly built the Fuyao autonomous-driving intelligent computing centre in Ulanqab. The building is not named.
Source · 分析丨大厂数据中心纷纷落地，算力的出路在乌兰察布？ (Tencent News, 2023-09-01)
The figure covers the whole campus.
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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