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Alibaba Zhangbei
Alibaba Zhangbei is the 19th-largest disclosed AI data-centre campus in the world by current power, drawing around 169 MW. It is operated by Alibaba, and it sits in China.
What we know
At around 169 MW, Alibaba Zhangbei is among the most power-hungry computing sites ever built, with an estimated 132,895 H100-equivalent accelerators of compute and a build cost estimated near $6.4 billion. These are estimates from Epoch AI’s Frontier Data Centers tracker (CC BY) — a curated set of the largest disclosed AI campuses, not a census, and currently US-heavy. This campus is located to city-level precision (25.70, -99.24). Power, compute and cost figures are Epoch estimates that change as sites are built and disclosed. Snapshot taken 2026-06-24.