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Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心) data center

Wuhu, Anhui, China · Wuhu market · location approximate to district level

Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心) is a data center project in Wuhu, China, operated by Volcano Engine (火山引擎), via Wuhu Jiangdong Mingyi Technology (芜湖江东名邑科技有限公司). It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 21,824 racks. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 24 May 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Volcano Engine (火山引擎), via Wuhu Jiangdong Mingyi Technology (芜湖江东名邑科技有限公司)
hyperscaler
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Long shot1 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted○ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

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

Wuhu holds 6 active projects with 298 MW of planned IT load between them, and Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 2 are operational and expanding, 3 are under construction and 1 is at the land and permitting stage. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Wuhu, 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 GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab. It sits on the Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Zone, north of Chizhushan Road (赤铸山路) campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 24 May 2024. The money on record is CN¥8bn as of January 2025, 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 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 29 July 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. 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

ByteDance cloud unit Volcano Engine builds the site as a computing centre for its AI and cloud services.

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

21,824 server cabinets and a 220kV substation · Land and permittingSize not published

Stage history

2024-05-24Land and permitting · weda.wuhu.gov.cn

Who is behind it

OperatorVolcano Engine (火山引擎), via Wuhu Jiangdong Mingyi Technology (芜湖江东名邑科技有限公司) · hyperscaler

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, 2025-01CN¥8bn

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.

Land
Site262,436 sqm · May 2024 Reported source ↗
Site area from the design plan notice. Counterparty not disclosed. Land use rights in China are granted by the state.

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. 芜湖江东名邑科技有限公司火山引擎长三角算力中心项目设计方案批前公示 (芜湖经济技术开发区, 2024-05-24)
  2. 字节火山引擎长三角算力中心环评文件获受理 总投资80亿 (财联社 (新浪财经转载), 2025-01-20)
  3. 芜湖这个产业,目标突破千亿元! (新京报, 2026-07-29)
  4. 字节跳动火山引擎长三角算力中心项目环评公示 (界面新闻) (界面新闻, 2024-05-24)

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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.