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Huawei Cloud East China (Wuhu) Data Centre (华为云华东(芜湖)数据中心)

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

Huawei Cloud East China (Wuhu) Data Centre (华为云华东(芜湖)数据中心) is a data center project in Wuhu, China, operated by Huawei Cloud (华为云). It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: moved to expanding on 29 July 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Huawei Cloud (华为云)
hyperscaler
AI workloads
Confirmed
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

Wuhu holds 6 active projects with 298 MW of planned IT load between them, and Huawei Cloud East China (Wuhu) Data Centre (华为云华东(芜湖)数据中心) 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.

Huawei has 3 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including Huawei Cloud Gui'an Data Center, Huawei Cloud North China (Horinger) Data Center and Huawei Cloud Ulanqab Data Center. It sits on the Three sites across Jiangbei, Sanshan and the vocational education zone, linked by fibre campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The build is phased. First stage, live from Jun 2024 is operational; Continued construction is under construction. The dated record runs from operational on 14 June 2024 to operational and expanding on 29 July 2026. Cooling uses direct liquid cooling, with a design PUE of 1.1.

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 29 July 2026, 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

StatusConfirmed

Huawei launched CloudMatrix 384 supernode AI capacity in the Wuhu cluster in Apr 2025. Liquid-cooled halls run at PUE 1.1.

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

First stage, live from Jun 2024 · OperationalSize not published
Continued construction · Under constructionSize not published

Stage history

2024-06-14Operational · news.mydrivers.com
2026-07-29Expanding · bjnews.com.cn

Who is behind it

OperatorHuawei Cloud (华为云) · 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.

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.

Power supply
Dedicated substation300 MVA · 220kV · Jul 2023 Confirmed source ↗
Vocational Education Park plot phase 1 (Yijiang District). New fully indoor 220kV substation with 3 x 100MVA 220/10kV transformers and indoor GIS. Each data hall building has 39 x 1,800kW diesel generators. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingDirect liquid cooling · design PUE 1.1 Reported source ↗
Liquid cooling with AI temperature control

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. 华为云张平安:芜湖数据中心采用全新架构 重新定义云基础设施 (快科技, 2024-06-14)
  2. 聚焦高质量发展|安徽芜湖:“算”迎未来 打造国内领先的“智算之城” (新华网, 2024-09-18)
  3. 芜湖这个产业,目标突破千亿元! (新京报, 2026-07-29)
  4. 安徽第二城,又一个「起飞」机会已至? (投资界 (城市进化论), 2025-09-30)
  5. 华为云计算有限公司《华为云华东芜湖数据中心-职教园地块(一期)环境影响报告表》批前公示 (芜湖市生态环境局, 2023-07-11)
  6. 首次应用多项数据中心创新技术,华为云芜湖枢纽正式开服 (极客公园, 2024-06-14)

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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.