Zhonglian Zero-Carbon AI Computing Park (Cloud Base)
Zhongwei, Ningxia, China · Zhongwei market · location approximate to city level
Also listed as 中联零碳智算（云基地）产业园.
Zhonglian Zero-Carbon AI Computing Park (Cloud Base) is a data center project in Zhongwei, China, operated by Zhonglian Data Group (中联数据集团). It is under construction. It is planned for 600 MW of IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 28 July 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted○ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started
Next gate to watch: Money committed.
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.
Zhongwei holds 18 active projects with 3,558 MW of planned IT load between them, and Zhonglian Zero-Carbon AI Computing Park (Cloud Base) ranks third 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.
Zhonglian Data Group has 3 others in China tracked by ArusGrid, including Zhonglian Data South China HQ and South China Computing Centre, Shaoguan (中联数据华南总部暨华南算力中心项目), Inner Mongolia Zhonglian Yaxin Green Intelligent Computing Centre (内蒙古中联亚信绿色智算中心项目) and Zhonglian Zero-Carbon AI Computing Park (Xuanhe), Zone A. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The build is phased. Phase 1 Building 1 at 75 MW is under construction with a 2026 target; Stage 1 total at 600 MW is announced. The stage was recorded as under construction on 28 July 2026. Power comes from State Grid Ningxia Zhongwei Power Supply Company through grid supply at 330 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 8 public sources for this project, the latest dated 17 September 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
How well evidenced is it
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.
Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes
AI workloads
StatusLikely
Stated purpose is AI computing (智算).
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 Building 1 · Under construction75 MW, target 2026
OperatorZhonglian Data Group (中联数据集团) · Colocation
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.
Design unit for Zone A: 5 data centre buildings, office building and ancillary works, 258,495.52 sqm floor area on 200,000 sqm.
Land
Allocated byZhongwei Municipal People's Government (中卫市人民政府) · 200,000 sqm · leasehold · Apr 2025 Confirmedsource ↗
Land use planning permit 地字第6405022025YG0015552号 to 宁夏卫联算都大数据科技有限公司 for Zone A. 土地取得：出让 (state land-use right granted by transfer). Approval 卫政土批字〔2025〕7号. Industrial land (cloud computing and big data centre), 300 mu. Term not stated.
Allocated byZhongwei Municipal People's Government (中卫市人民政府) · 130,603 sqm · leasehold · May 2026 Confirmedsource ↗
Land use planning permit 6405022026YG0013687 to 宁夏中云智算数据科技有限公司 for Zone B, east of Zone A. 土地取得方式：出让 (state land-use right granted by transfer). Approval 卫政土批字〔2025〕28号. Industrial land, 195.9 mu. Term not stated.
Green direct supply (绿电直供); article quotes '绿电直供线路就架在园区'. · Supplier not named; Zhongwei's large-scale green direct-supply project is Datang's (500MW PV + 1.5GW wind), but this article does not name Datang as Zhonglian's supplier. · Applies to the whole campus.
Grid supplyState Grid Ningxia Zhongwei Power Supply Company · 330kV · Sep 2025 Confirmedsource ↗
New 330kV line from the Shapotou substation to the 卫联算都 (Zhonglian) site, about 2 x 10.3km plus 0.2km on 30 towers, 36.56 million yuan. The on-site 330kV substation building got a permit on 2026-07-07. · Applies to the whole campus.
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.