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Kuaishou Intelligent Cloud Ulanqab Data Center

Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China · Ulanqab market · location approximate to city level

Also listed as 快手智能云乌兰察布数据中心, 快手智能云数据, 快手项目 and Kuaishou Ulanqab.

Kuaishou Intelligent Cloud Ulanqab Data Center is a data center project in Ulanqab, China, operated by Kuaishou Intelligent Cloud (Ulanqab) Technology (快手智能云(乌兰察布)科技有限公司). It is operational. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 20,000 racks. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 1 September 2023. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Kuaishou Intelligent Cloud (Ulanqab) Technology (快手智能云(乌兰察布)科技有限公司)
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
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

Ulanqab holds 18 active projects with 1,262 MW of planned IT load between them, and Kuaishou Intelligent 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.

Kuaishou has 2 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including Kuaishou Horinger Computing Centre (快手和林格尔新区算力项目) and Kuaishou Xinghe Data Center, Ulanqab. It sits on the Kuaishou Ulanqab campus alongside Kuaishou Xinghe Data Center, Ulanqab. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The dated record runs from under construction on 16 June 2020 to operational on 1 September 2023. The money on record is CN¥10bn as of June 2020, the announced investment. Cooling uses air cooling, with a design PUE of 1.2.

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 19 July 2025, 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

StatusLikely

This is a self-built hyperscale campus for Kuaishou's own big data and AI workloads. Kuaishou trains the Kling models. No GPU deployment at this building has been sourced.

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 2 (快手数据二期, Bayin)Size not published

Stage history

2020-06-16Under construction · news.pedaily.cn
2023-09-01Operational · news.qq.com

Who is behind it

OperatorKuaishou Intelligent Cloud (Ulanqab) Technology (快手智能云(乌兰察布)科技有限公司) · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Built for Kuaishou Intelligent Cloud (Ulanqab) Technology (快手智能云(乌兰察布)科技有限公司)'s own use. No customer workload has been tied to this building on the public record.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2020-06CN¥10bn

The figure covers the whole campus.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Project team
Mechanical and electrical works中国建筑第五工程局有限公司 (中建五局) · Jul 2025 Reported source ↗
Electromechanical general contract for the Kuaishou Ulanqab data centre stage 2: electrical, HVAC, intelligent systems and fit-out, with equipment supply and installation, about 85,000 sqm. Works formally started shortly before 2025-07-19. Value not stated.
Water and cooling
CoolingAir cooled · design PUE 1.2 Confirmed source ↗
多种节水和无水空调技术 plus 自然冷源, solar and waste-heat recovery
CoolingEvaporative cooling Reported source ↗
New-type indirect evaporative cooling, expected to save about 60% of water; wide use of natural cold, wind and solar power and waste-heat recovery.

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. 公有云厂商会错失短视频时代吗? (Pedaily (Geekpark), 2020-06-16)
  2. 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)
  3. 大量采用国产芯片,快手:公司首个超大规模数据中心位于“东数西算”内蒙古枢纽节点 (IT之家 (citing 财联社), 2022-02-19)
  4. 落实“东数西算”工程 快手智能云乌兰察布数据中心正式投运 (央视网, 2023-07-29)
  5. 快手首个超大规模数据中心落地乌兰察布,投资达百亿 (C114通信网, 2020-06-08)
  6. 快手智能云乌兰察布数据中心(二阶段)机电总承包工程启动 (中工网 (工人日报), via 新浪财经, 2025-07-19)

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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.