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Volcano Engine GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab data center

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

Also listed as 火山引擎GW级算力中心, 抖音, ByteDance Ulanqab and ByteDance Jining.

Volcano Engine GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab is a data center project in Ulanqab, China, operated by Volcano Engine (火山引擎, ByteDance). 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 22 August 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Volcano Engine (火山引擎, ByteDance)
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced
Will it get built?Open question2 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

Your call. Will it be built?

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 Volcano Engine GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab 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.

ByteDance has 3 others in China and 1 project elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Volcano Engine Zhongwei Xuanhe Computing Centre, Phase 1, Volcano Engine GW-scale Park, Hohhot and Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心). No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as announced only on 22 August 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 3 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

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

This is a ByteDance AI computing centre signed in 2026 and described as GW-scale.

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

Stage history

2026-08-22Announced · cnfin.com

Who is behind it

OperatorVolcano Engine (火山引擎, ByteDance) · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Built for Volcano Engine (火山引擎, ByteDance)'s own use. No customer workload has been tied to this building on the public record.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. 乌兰察布如何拼出2.1毫秒的'算力速度' (Xinhua Finance, 2026-08-22)
  2. ByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia: source (SCMP, 2026-09-03)
  3. 五大智算项目集中落地乌兰察布 (新华财经 (中国金融信息网), 2026-08-22)

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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.