Huawei Technologies
On the US Entity List since May 2019
Who controls its compute
Evidence ↓How Huawei Technologies holds its compute is not yet on record.
Searched US SEC filings (EDGAR full-text search), Sep 25, 2026: VNET’s filings of 2018 to 2022 name Huawei as a customer, the first as one expanding capacity at VNET’s data centres, and GDS’s of October 2020 lists Huawei Cloud among the cloud providers its data centres host; none gives a site, a size or a term.
Operating
- 4 operating sites in facility catalogues; ~278 MW recorded on 1 (Huawei Horinger)Epoch AI, an estimateinferred
Catalogue figures as compiled Oct 4, 2026.
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
- On the US Entity List since May 21, 2019: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei)Federal Register, 84 FR 22963attested
- BIS guidance of May 13, 2025 lists its Ascend 910B, 910C and 910D chips as presumed subject to General Prohibition 10: using them risks violating US export controlsBIS General Prohibition 10 guidance, May 13, 2025attested
What cannot be seen
Evidence ↓- Huawei Technologies’ own announcements and annual reports were not searched
- Capacity is recorded for 1 of 4 operating catalogue sites
- No SEC registrant identifier of its own is on record; its LEI record names no parent and declares control by an entity that does not consolidate itGLEIF, Aug 8, 2026attested
- Subscription supply data places it at or above the 90th percentile of 5,377 organisations by number of supply relationships; the relationships are withheld
Control
An EDGAR full-text search on 19 August 2026 found no filings for “Huawei data center”, “hosting agreement with Huawei”, “lease with Huawei” or “colocation Huawei”, and 44 filings from 16 registrants for “Huawei Cloud”. Its reading missed what two of those registrants, both data-centre operators, say of Huawei, and a search of their filings for “Huawei” on 25 September 2026 corrects it. VNET Group names Huawei in March 2018 among large clients that “continued to expand their capacity at our IDC centers”, and as a current customer in filings from August 2020 to April 2022. GDS Holdings lists Huawei Cloud in October 2020 among the public cloud providers its data centres host. Other registrants’ filings describe Huawei Cloud hosting their servers or data. None of these filings gives a site, a size or a term.
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 U.S. export controls”, so using them without BIS authorization risks violating those controls.
1 designation matched to this organisation or its group.
- US Entity List: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei), listed May 21, 2019 (84 FR 22963) source ↗
Export controls gives each match’s confidence.
Scrutica’s cross-reference links 34 organisations in total. 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 organisation holds legal entity identifier 300300G4NLFHF8PDPY52.
The organisation’s registration in the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system.
The organisation reports control by a legal entity that does not consolidate its accounts under the applicable accounting standard.
Why the organisation has not reported a direct or ultimate consolidating parent to the LEI registry.
Registry reason code: NON_CONSOLIDATING · as of Aug 8, 2026 · registry record ↗
No active consolidation record in this registry extract names this identifier as parent.
Reports from LEI-registered entities whose accounts are consolidated by this organisation.
as of Aug 8, 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.
| Status | Facilities | Capacity where recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Operational | 4 | 278 MW across 1 of 4 facilities, an estimate |
All 4 facilities in the totals
| Facility | Status | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Huawei Horinger | Operational | 278 MW (est.) |
| Huawei Dongguan Cloud Data Center (Songshan Lake) | Operational | not recorded |
| Huawei Cloud Gui'an Data Center | Operational | not recorded |
| Huawei Cloud Ulanqab Data Center | Operational | not recorded |
Epoch’s frontier catalog includes 1 of the 4 linked facilities. Operating power totals ~278 MW (includes estimates).
Supply
Subscription corporate data supplies these comparisons; the underlying relationships cannot be republished.
The number of supply relationships involving this organisation is at or above the 90th percentile of the 5,377 organisations in the supply dataset.
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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