Huawei · Wuhu, Anhui, China

Huawei Wuhu

181MW

The power of 150,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Jan 2025. Projected to reach 526 MW by Dec 2027.

Capital cost
$6.0B
Chips
Ascend 910C
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Power over time

facility power · 10 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 1 Jan 2023 — Land clearing begins, with the east campus being the first of the three. Land clearing begins for the other two campuses months after.
  2. 1 Jan 2025 51 MW The first building is operational. On the north campus, building 4 is operational assuming a 3-month fit-out post structural completion.
  3. 1 Mar 2025 137 MW Three buildings are operational. On the west campus, building 1 is operational, and on the east campus, building 7 is operational. The second building on the east campus has installed generators, but as of 2026 does not have the cooling sufficient for AI. Assumes a 3-month fit-out post structural completion.
  4. 1 Nov 2025 181 MW Four buildings are operational. On the west campus, building 2 is operational assuming a 3-month fit-out post structural completion.
  5. 24 Jan 2026 181 MW Four buildings are operational in total. A fifth building, building 5 on the north campus, is finishing installing roofside cooling. Another building on the east campus is complete but does not have sufficient cooling for AI despite its backup generators. The remaining three buildings, one per campus, have not begun construction.
  6. 1 Jun 2026 181 MW Four buildings are operational. On the north campus, building 5 is nearing structural completion but still has roofing and cooling remaining.
  7. 6 Aug 2026 181 MW On the north campus, building 5 is structurally complete but not operational as seen by barricades and no parked cars. Building 6, a much larger building across the pond, should finish construction in approximately one month, given that it is structurally complete and 75% of its cooling looks to be installed. On the east campus, building 9 is under construction.
  8. 1 Nov 2026 · projected 229 MW Five buildings are operational. On the north campus, building 5 is operational assuming a 3-month fit-out post structural completion.
  9. 31 Dec 2026 · projected 419 MW Six buildings are operational. On the north campus, building 6, the larger building, is operational assuming a 3-month fit-out if it is structurally complete in September. We assume Building 6 is about 3.7x more power than one of the previous buildings, based on the size and quantity of cooling and backup generator equipment observed in satellite imagery.
  10. 1 Dec 2027 · projected 526 MW All eight AI buildings are operational. Buildings 3 and 9 are assumed to be 1.25x the power and compute of buildings 1 and 7 based on the sizing of the backup generator enclosures; building 8 is excluded due to insufficient cooling. The time from observed land-clearing to operational is 23-26 months based on previous buildings.

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Oct 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

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. Official Huawei page for its Wuhu DC
  2. Aerial footage of Jiangbei, one of three zones part of the multi-part campus
  3. Environmental report

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 Wuhu. Grid: Ember, “Monthly Electricity Data and Yearly Electricity Data”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 11 Oct 2026; shares computed here. All sources.