Scrutica
Supply Chain
Power capacity, hardware inventory, upstream suppliers, and downstream customers for the row owned by ByteDance; any BIS Entity List exposure is walked through the canonical org graph rather than asserted at the facility row.
Capacity, ownership chain, and supply-chain position for ByteDance Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II (Datong), including any export-control exposure that surfaces when the BIS Entity List touches a node above the facility in the chain.
As of 2026-05-22
Operator (or owner of record) per the Scrutica facility row.
Ownership chain not yet documented in the available data (PitchBook affiliate graph, FactSet supply graph, SEC filings, LEI registry; as of 2026-05-22). The chain may extend further once additional ingestion runs complete; absence here reflects coverage at this snapshot, not a documented apex.
ByteDance, the documented owner of ByteDance Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II (Datong), sits as a seed node in 1 pre-built cascade scenario. Severity is the scenario's seed-impact value (per-node override where one is defined); decay reflects the curator's substitutability assessment for the disrupted role. Run any scenario to walk the propagation through the full supply-chain graph.
Upstream dependency on US tools (EDA, advanced equipment, foundry access) is structural for Chinese AI compute consumers — domestic substitutes exist but cover narrow node ranges, so impact propagates with little dampening per hop.
Description
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).
Notes
authority_tier=2: facility existence + Datong / Guangling County siting + ¥4.5B / US$614M investment + cabinet count (15,604 × 12 kW) + 205,013 m² campus footprint anchored to SCMP 2024-09 (citing Chinese government project filings) + w.media 2024-09 corroboration. Operational date NOT disclosed in any fetched primary source — status under_construction. Per-facility MW capacity NOT disclosed (15,604 × 12 kW implies ~187 MW IT load as a derived figure only; power_capacity_mw NULL per anti-fabrication discipline). Lat/lng NULL — Guangling County / Big Data Park siting only. ByteDance regulatory exposure: NOT BIS Entity-Listed at parent level (2026-05-17); US 2024 Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act mandates TikTok divestiture but does not affect ByteDance mainland-China cloud operations. Vnet 500 MW colocation commitment (announced 2026-03) is recorded in description as adjacent partnership; separate facility row deferred pending Vnet facility-precision disclosure.
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-05-22. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in the available data for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from PitchBook deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); PitchBook coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
No documented sovereign or state-linked LP investment touches any entity in this chain. PitchBook LP-disclosure rate is partial; absence of evidence here is not evidence of absence.
The walk for ByteDance Volcano Cloud Taihang Computing Centre II (Datong)starts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph, normalized to trace child-to-parent relationships. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > FactSet Workstation / Revere > Compustat > BIS / Federal Register > PitchBook). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (PitchBook): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after PitchBook's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and the underlying data compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the ingested sources but are not surfaced on this card. And some PitchBook edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-05-22. Walk depth observed: 1 hop. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + PitchBook affiliate graph + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) FactSet Revere supply-chain graph + Federal Register designation closures.
Agricultural Bank of China (Data Center)
Shanghai, CN