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Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 24
Envision Launches 2-GW AI Data Centre in Inner Mongolia, Targeting 1 Million Accelerators
Updated
Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 24

Envision Launches 2-GW AI Data Centre in Inner Mongolia, Targeting 1 Million Accelerators

1 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 24

Summary

  • Envision Group has brought its Galaxy Campus online in Ulanqab, centered on a 120,000-square-metre AI data centre built to support China’s AI expansion.
  • The campus is designed for more than 2 gigawatts of power capacity and up to 1 million AI accelerators, putting it among the world’s largest AI computing facilities.
  • Ulanqab’s cheap wind power and cool climate are driving the project, turning a pastureland economy once known for livestock and potatoes into a base for AI infrastructure.
  • At that scale, the site would exceed the projected 1.5-gigawatt IT power capacity of Colossus 2, the US AI data centre run by Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, according to Epoch AI.

Insights

Will China’s inland AI mega-campuses deliver true economic growth, or just saddle rural regions with underutilized infrastructure?
Can Ulanqab’s wind-powered AI boom survive the region's severe water scarcity and hidden reliance on coal energy?