China Unicom YRD (Wuhu) Intelligent Computing Centre (中国联通长三角（芜湖）智算中心) is a data center project in Wuhu, China, operated by China Unicom (中国联通). It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 8,750 racks, with 792 in service. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.
Latest change on record: moved to expanding on 10 November 2025. 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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Wuhu holds 6 active projects with 298 MW of planned IT load between them, and China Unicom YRD (Wuhu) Intelligent Computing Centre (中国联通长三角（芜湖）智算中心) 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.
China Unicom has 9 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including China Unicom Zhongwei Cloud Data Center, China Unicom (Huailai) Big Data Innovation Industrial Park (中国联通（怀来）大数据创新产业园) and China Unicom Southwest Data Center (Chongqing Shuitu). It sits on the Jiangbei New Area (江北新区) campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The build is phased. Phase 1, 792 racks is operational; Phase 2, two data centre buildings and a 110kV substation is under construction with a 2026 target. The dated record runs from under construction on 24 November 2023 to operational and expanding on 10 November 2025. The money on record is CN¥6bn as of November 2023, the announced investment. Power comes from China Unicom Wuhu branch (owner of substation) through a dedicated substation at 110 kV.
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 September 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.
Planned for 50,000P of compute at full build (Nov 2025).
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
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
The figure covers the whole campus.
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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