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Record to May 17, 2026

ByteDance Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II (Datong)

TypeHyperscale DCStatusUnder constructionWhereDatong, Shanxi, CNIndexed fromByteDance Volcano Cloud disclosures

Under construction; ByteDance is recorded as an operator of this site

ByteDance's self-built Shanxi compute hub, operated by ByteDance-controlled subsidiary Volcano Cloud (Datong) Technology (火山引擎; Volcano Engine cloud brand). Sited at Guangling County Economic Development Zone Big Data Park in Datong, Shanxi Province. Investment ¥4.5B (~US$614M) per SCMP 2024-09 coverage of Chinese government project filings. Campus footprint: 205,013 m² across six 2-story data-center buildings + one 6-story integrated facility, designed for 15,604 × 12 kW server cabinets + 510 network cabinets per primary-source filings. Anchors ByteDance's "Eastern Data Western Compute" (东数西算) inland self-built footprint, alongside its Vnet 500 MW colocation commitment in China announced 2026-03 (Bloomberg / The Star Malaysia / GlobalDataCenterHub — recorded contextually here rather than as a separate facility row because Vnet facility-precision location data is not disclosed).

Source: ByteDance Volcano Cloud disclosures

1/3site roles identified0 site relationships1 finding in the company chain0 export-control designationsFurthest finding: company at site

Date in site records: May 17, 2026. Site data: ByteDance Volcano Cloud disclosures.

Ownership and operation

Plate I. Site owner, operator and hardware ownerscrutica.com · data to May 17, 2026

Site operator · per third-party report

ByteDance parent ownership unresolved 1 finding

Which organisation runs it?

ByteDance Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II (Datong)Site

Site operator · per third-party report ByteDance. “Operated by ByteDance-controlled Volcano Cloud (Datong) Technology, the project will cover 205,013 square metres (2,206,742 sq ft), equivalent to the area of nearly 30 football pitches.” source

Investor (announced) ByteDance. A third-party report states a planned investment in the site. “ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is set to invest 4.5 billion yuan (US$614 million) in a new computing centre in the city of Datong, in northern Shanxi province” source

Recorded owner attribution withheld ByteDance. The cited source does not establish that this organisation holds title to the site. “ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is set to invest 4.5 billion yuan (US$614 million) in a new computing centre in the city of Datong, in northern Shanxi province” source

Companies are grouped by their role at the site, with recorded parents above them. No parent companies were found in the ownership data. Further ownership remains unresolved where labelled. Record source: ByteDance Volcano Cloud disclosures; authority tier 2. Each role is drawn only as the relationship its own source establishes, listed above; none implies exclusive control of the full site. Ticks count the export-control and government-link findings for each company.

Export controls and government links

No export-control designations were found in the checked company chains.

Plate III. Export controls and government linksscrutica.com · data to May 17, 2026
site1A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in Chinacompany levels
Company at site

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.

Country is the recorded headquarters location.Linked through the company recorded as operating this site.

Triangle: export-control designation or regulatory flag. Square: sovereign capital linkage. Circle: headquarters jurisdiction. Level 1 is a company at the site; higher levels are its parents. 1 finding is recorded; 0 are export-control designations.

Capacity

Reading. Power and acceleratorsscrutica.com · data to May 17, 2026

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

Ownership checks start with each company named at the site and follow recorded parent relationships. A company holding several roles is checked once. Its linked company page lists the relationships and their sources; further parents may remain undocumented.

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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