Also listed as 百度智算中心（中卫）.
Baidu Zhongwei AI Computing Centre is a data center project in Zhongwei, China, operated by Baidu (百度). It is operational. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 17 September 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
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.
Zhongwei holds 18 active projects with 3,558 MW of planned IT load between them, and Baidu Zhongwei AI Computing Centre has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 5 are operational, 5 are operational and expanding, 3 are under construction, 3 are at the land and permitting stage and 2 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Zhongwei, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
It is the only Baidu project ArusGrid tracks. The named user of the compute is Baidu (reported, unconfirmed).
The stage was recorded as operational on 17 September 2025.
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 31 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.
Described as an AI computing centre (智算中心) with about 11,000 PFLOPS of compute (潮新闻, Aug 2026).
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
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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