Alibaba · Zhangbei, Hebei, China

Alibaba Zhangbei

203MW

The power of 160,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Sep 2025.

Capital cost
$6.4B
Chips
H20
Users
Alibaba
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Power over time

facility power · 4 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 23 Jul 2024 — New chiller configuration starts getting installed on Building 1-3.
  2. 17 Sep 2025 102 MW Large substation is visibly connected to transmission lines. New chillers look fully installed on Building 1-3. Since power and cooling is apparently in place, we expect Building 1-3 are operational. Chillers are almost installed on Building 4-6, with construction equipment still around the building.
  3. 23 Dec 2025 102 MW Chillers look fully installed on Building 4-6. Some chillers on Building 4 and 5 appear to have snow in the fan holes, suggesting they are not operating and other chillers are operating (since warm air would melt the snow). There is still a bit of construction equipment around Building 6 so it may not be quite operational.
  4. 3 Jan 2026 203 MW Expect Building 4-6 have finished upgrading with new chillers.

Coal made 54% of the power in China

share of generation · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026

China World

  1. Gas 3%
  2. Coal 54%
  3. Other fossil 1%
  4. Nuclear 5%
  5. Wind 11%
  6. Solar 12%
  7. Hydro 13%
  8. Bio & other 1%

Fossil 58% (−2 pts on a year earlier) · nuclear 5% · renewables 37% · 554 g CO2e per kWh, life cycle · Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. Generation for all of China, without imports; the data does not show which grid feeds the site. Every country behind an AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Sinocities blog on Eastern Data Western Compute sites
  2. News on the Chahar site, with an aerial photo
  3. Hebei government page with 3D renderings of the Miaotan North and Chahar sites
  4. Announcement of the Hebei Zhangbei Intelligent Computing Center

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Zhangbei. Grid: Ember, “Monthly Electricity Data and Yearly Electricity Data”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 11 Oct 2026; shares computed here. All sources.