Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei Data Centres, Miaotan and Xiaoertai (阿里巴巴张北数据中心，庙滩、小二台) is a data center project in Zhangjiakou, China, operated by Alibaba Cloud (阿里云). It is operational. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 8,000 racks. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.
Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 1 September 2016. 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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Zhangjiakou holds 8 active projects with 540 MW of planned IT load between them, and Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei Data Centres, Miaotan and Xiaoertai (阿里巴巴张北数据中心，庙滩、小二台) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 3 are operational, 2 are under construction, 2 are at the land and permitting stage and 1 is announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Zhangjiakou, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Alibaba has 4 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including Alibaba YRD Intelligent Computing Base (阿里巴巴长三角智能计算基地), Alibaba Cloud Western Cloud Computing Center and Data Service Base and Alibaba Cloud Ulanqab Data Center. It sits on the Alibaba Zhangbei Cloud Computing Base, Zhangbei County campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The build is phased. Park 1 is operational with a 2016 target; Park 2 is operational with a 2016 target. The stage was recorded as operational on 1 September 2016. Cooling uses hybrid air and liquid cooling.
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 5 public sources for this project, the latest dated 20 August 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.
No public signal either way.
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.
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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