Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center
Operational; Baidu is recorded as the developer, and no source here establishes who holds or runs the site
Baidu's flagship self-built data center, the first large-scale Baidu Cloud Computing facility, located in the Eastern District of Yangquan Economic Development Zone, Shanxi Province. Phase 1 includes eight high-standard module buildings, ~6,000 cabinets, ~700,000 CPUs (3M+ cores), 160,000+ servers, 4,000 PB storage. Annual-average PUE ~1.09 (43% energy savings vs baseline) per Baidu corporate disclosures. Disclosed at the March 2023 ERNIE Bot launch event as "currently the largest single intelligent computing center in Asia" for AI workloads, with 40-quintillion-FLOP/s compute claim. Total project investment ¥47.08 billion per state-affiliated reporting.
Source: Baidu corporate disclosures
Date in site records: May 16, 2026. Site data: Baidu corporate disclosures.
Ownership and operation
Developer (as last stated) Baidu. A third-party report states development of the site. “The Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center is the first large-scale data center project self-built by Baidu.” source
Recorded operator attribution withheld Baidu. The cited source does not establish that this organisation operates the site. “It has successfully supported crucial services including Baidu's core search, DuerOS, Baidu AI Cloud, the Basic Technology Group, New Business Group, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent Driving.” source
Recorded owner attribution withheld Baidu. The cited source does not establish that this organisation holds title to the site. “The Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center is the first large-scale data center project self-built by Baidu.” source
Export controls and government links
No export-control designations were found in the checked company chains.
Sovereign capital linkage
GIC Private is a limited partner in a fund linked to Baidu in the corporate-data source
Fund identity and commitment amount withheld under licence.
Sovereign capital linkage
China Development Bank Capital is a limited partner in 2 funds linked to Baidu in the corporate-data source
Fund identities and commitment amounts withheld under licence.
Headquarters jurisdiction
A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in China
China: Not a Wassenaar participant; operates its own Export Control Law (2020) and Unreliable Entity List; MOFCOM and the Ministry of Commerce administer dual-use catalogues. Export-control regimes listed for this jurisdiction: Chinese Export Control Law (2020), MOFCOM Unreliable Entity List authority.
Headquarters jurisdiction
A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in VG
This headquarters jurisdiction has no classification in the export-control regime table.
Capacity
No power figure is recorded for this site.
Methods and sources
Ownership roles
Title identifies the legal owner of the site; operation identifies who runs it. AI-hardware ownership follows the catalog’s attribution of the machines inside, whose owner may lease the facility.
Each role requires its own attribution. An operator named in a source supplies evidence of operation only.
Parent companies
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Level 1 identifies a company at the site, level 2 its parent, and each further level another parent. Export-control designations and government investments are assigned to the company concerned.
Missing values
Unrecorded roles remain blank. Findings whose company position is unresolved stay in the list with that position labelled unknown.
Publication limits
Subscription corporate data helps identify parent relationships and sovereign investments. Publication is limited to relationship classes and supporting public sources; licensed records, identifiers and values are withheld.
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