DeepSeek
How DeepSeek holds its compute is not yet on record
Who controls its compute
Evidence ↓Searched US and EU filings, hosting providers and utilities, Aug 11, 2026: nothing shows ownership, operation or a capacity contract.
Status not on record
- Press report only: a plan to add a gigawatt of compute in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, building a facility of its own while leasing more capacity from other companiesBloomberg, syndicated by The Japan Times, Aug 1, 2026; no primary documentreported
What constrains it
Evidence ↓- Headquartered in China: heavily restricted under US chip-export rules. The January 2026 rule provides conditional case-by-case review for qualifying US exports, including H200 and MI325XUS rules as of Jul 17, 2026
- No US Entity List entry matches itUS Entity List as recorded to Aug 21, 2026attested
What cannot be seen
Evidence ↓- DeepSeek’s own papers and announcements were not searched
- No SEC registrant identifier of its own is on record; the LEI registry holds no record for itGLEIF search, Aug 12, 2026
- Absent from the subscription supply data (5,377 organisations)
Control
Searches of US and EU counterparty disclosures on 11 August 2026 covered SEC full-text filings, hosting providers and utilities. The search found no primary disclosure establishing facility ownership, operation or a capacity contract. The search record cites a Bloomberg report; as syndicated by The Japan Times on 1 August 2026, it says DeepSeek is looking to add a gigawatt of compute in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, building a facility of its own while leasing more capacity from other companies. No primary document for that report was retrieved.
Constraint
Chip-access rules for the headquarters country, followed by export-control designations matched to the organisation or its group.
Headquarters: China.
Heavily Restricted. Advanced-chip exports face extensive restrictions. The January 2026 rule provides conditional case-by-case review for qualifying US exports, including H200 and MI325X. Chinese-designed alternatives require their own legal assessment. Classification based on rules as of Jul 17, 2026.
- The January 2026 pathway applies to qualifying US exports to China or Macau below 21,000 TPP and 6,500 GB/s total DRAM bandwidth. H200 and MI325X are examples, not an exhaustive eligibility list.
- The rule caps aggregate TPP exported to China and Macau against 50% of TPP shipped to US customers for US end-use for the same commodities, from first commercial US shipment through application. Supply, end-use, security and testing conditions also apply.
- BIS’s May 2025 guidance lists Ascend 910B, 910C and 910D as PRC advanced-computing chips subject to the presumption that General Prohibition 10 applies: they were likely developed or produced in violation of US export controls, so using them without BIS authorization risks violating those controls.
No designation matches this organisation in Scrutica’s cross-reference, which links 34 organisations to export-control lists sourced from the Federal Register.
Latest recorded listing change: Aug 21, 2026.
Disclosure posture
Legal-entity registration and consolidation declarations from the global LEI registry, with subsidiary disclosures from SEC filings where available.
The global LEI index was searched on 12 August 2026 for “DeepSeek”, “High-Flyer”, 深度求索 and 幻方. No registration for this organisation was found.
The organisation’s registration in the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system.
as of Aug 12, 2026 · registry record ↗
The registry search found no LEI for this organisation; parent reports are indexed by LEI.
Why the organisation has not reported a direct or ultimate consolidating parent to the LEI registry.
as of Aug 12, 2026 · registry record ↗
The registry search found no LEI for this organisation; parent reports are indexed by LEI.
Reports from LEI-registered entities whose accounts are consolidated by this organisation.
as of Aug 12, 2026 · registry record ↗
No SEC registrant identifier is linked to this organisation in Scrutica.
SEC filings under the organisation’s own Central Index Key (CIK).
Capacity
Facilities linked to this organisation or its group, with capacity from the cited catalogs. Hardware ownership identifies the owner of the compute equipment; facility ownership and operation require separate evidence.
The facility catalogs and control disclosures contain no linked sites for this organisation or its group. Searches of US and EU counterparty disclosures on 11 August 2026 covered SEC full-text filings, hosting providers and utilities. The search found no primary disclosure establishing facility ownership, operation or a capacity contract. The search record cites a Bloomberg report; as syndicated by The Japan Times on 1 August 2026, it says DeepSeek is looking to add a gigawatt of compute in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, building a facility of its own while leasing more capacity from other companies. No primary document for that report was retrieved.
Supply
Subscription corporate data supplies these comparisons; the underlying relationships cannot be republished.
A percentile band is unavailable for this organisation in the dataset of 5,377 organisations. Bands begin at the 50th percentile and require at least 100 organisations.
No identified counterparty pair is available from the control disclosures for this comparison.
The review on Aug 12, 2026 found no conflict between the subscription data and the public claims cited here.
Sources and method
1 · How claims are graded
Grades depend on the source’s authority tier, the discloser’s role and the estimate flag.
Attested A non-estimated claim from a primary or research source, disclosed by the organisation, a counterparty or a regulator.
Reported Press or third-party reporting.
Inferred Derived or estimated, including announced capacity ceilings.
A value flagged as estimated grades inferred regardless of its source. This includes capacity ceilings announced by a party to the agreement.
2 · Data sources
Control. Ownership, operating and contractual arrangements, with supporting disclosures linked from each claim.
Constraint. Export-control designations anchored to Federal Register citations, the platform’s designation-to-organisation cross-reference, and rule-derived country access classifications.
Disclosure posture. The Global LEI Foundation golden copy (registration, parent-reporting declarations, and consolidation records), read by the organisation’s own identifier, plus its SEC registrant record where one exists.
Capacity. Facility catalogs, including Epoch AI’s frontier data-center catalog; each capacity figure links to its source.
3 · Search coverage
An empty section carries its search method and date if a search has been completed. Not yet searched means no search is on file.
Control claims cite their supporting documents; unverified leads remain in the search notes.
4 · Subscription sources
Subscription corporate data guides source searches and coverage checks. Published control claims cite the public disclosures that establish them.
Supply comparisons use broad percentile bands and corroboration classes to protect the licensed relationship data. The underlying records and identifiers are withheld.
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