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Volcano Engine Zhongwei Xuanhe Computing Centre, Phase 1 data center

Zhongwei, Ningxia, China · Zhongwei market · location approximate to city level

Also listed as 火山引擎宁夏中卫宣和算力中心.

Volcano Engine Zhongwei Xuanhe Computing Centre, Phase 1 is a data center project in Zhongwei, China, operated by Volcano Engine (火山引擎), permit holder 中卫朔方星河科技有限公司. It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 7.47 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 30 September 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 13 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
7.47 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Volcano Engine (火山引擎), permit holder 中卫朔方星河科技有限公司
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced
Will it get built?Open question3 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

Zhongwei holds 18 active projects with 3,558 MW of planned IT load between them, and Volcano Engine Zhongwei Xuanhe Computing Centre, Phase 1 ranks 8th by planned capacity. 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.

ByteDance has 3 others in China and 1 project elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Volcano Engine GW-scale Park, Hohhot, Volcano Engine GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab and Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心). The named user of the compute is ByteDance (reported, unconfirmed).

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 30 September 2026.

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 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 10 October 2026, and last checked the record on 13 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Named a computing centre (算力中心) by the cloud arm of ByteDance. No source states GPU use.

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

Phase 1 · Land and permitting7.47 MW

Stage history

2026-09-30Land and permitting · nxzw.gov.cn

Who is behind it

OperatorVolcano Engine (火山引擎), permit holder 中卫朔方星河科技有限公司 · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerByteDance · reported, unconfirmed

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Land
Allocated byZhongwei Municipal People's Government (中卫市人民政府) · 42,587 sqm · leasehold · Sep 2026 Confirmed source ↗
出让 (land-use right granted by transfer). Approval 卫政土批字〔2026〕26号.

Sources checked 2026-10-13

  1. 火山引擎宁夏中卫宣和算力中心一期项目建设用地规划许可证证后公示 (中卫市人民政府, 2026-10-10)
  2. 火山引擎宁夏中卫宣和算力中心一期项目（C1超核楼1、C2超核楼2、辅助用房、主门卫、消防水池、CG1/2超核柴发平台）建设工程规划许可证证后公示 (中卫市人民政府, 2026-10-10)

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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.