Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心) is a data center project in Wuhu, China, operated by Volcano Engine (火山引擎), via Wuhu Jiangdong Mingyi Technology (芜湖江东名邑科技有限公司). It is under construction. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It is planned for 21,824 racks. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.
Latest change on record: moved to under construction in November 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Money committed.
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Wuhu holds 6 active projects with 298 MW of planned IT load between them, and Volcano Engine YRD Computing Centre (火山引擎长三角算力中心) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 2 are operational and expanding and 4 are under construction. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Wuhu, 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 Zhongwei Xuanhe Computing Centre, Phase 1, Volcano Engine GW-scale Park, Hohhot and Volcano Engine GW-scale Computing Center, Ulanqab. It sits on the Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Zone, north of Chizhushan Road (赤铸山路) campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The dated record runs from at the land and permitting stage on 24 May 2024 to under construction in November 2024. The money on record is CN¥8bn as of January 2025, the announced investment. Power comes from Project 220kV substation (phase 1) through a dedicated substation at 220 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 13 public sources for this project, the latest dated 29 July 2026, and last checked the record on 22 October 2026.
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.
ByteDance cloud unit Volcano Engine builds the site as a computing centre for its AI and cloud services.
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
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
The figure covers the whole campus.
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.
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