Also listed as DeepSeek乌兰察布 and 深度求索乌兰察布.
DeepSeek Ulanqab data centre (DeepSeek乌兰察布数据中心) is a data center project in Ulanqab, China, operated by DeepSeek (杭州深度求索人工智能基础技术研究有限公司). It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 30 July 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Land secured.
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Ulanqab holds 18 active projects with 1,262 MW of planned IT load between them, and DeepSeek Ulanqab data centre (DeepSeek乌兰察布数据中心) 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.
It is the only DeepSeek project ArusGrid tracks. It sits on the DeepSeek Ulanqab campus. The named user of the compute is DeepSeek (reported, unconfirmed).
The stage was recorded as announced only on 30 July 2026.
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 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 12 October 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
An AI lab is reported to be building the site for its own model training and inference.
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
Campus · as of 2026-07-30
Bloomberg cites unnamed people who say DeepSeek is developing about 1GW of compute in Ulanqab, part self-built and part leased. DeepSeek did not comment.
Source · DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia (Bloomberg, 2026-07-30)
Source · DeepSeek被曝筹划1GW数据中心，落子内蒙古 (网易科技, 2026-07-31)
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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