Scrutica
Power
H100 Equiv
Supply Chain
Facility-level telemetry including power capacity, hardware deployments, supplier relationships, and downstream dependencies. Linked to Alibaba with cross-referenced BIS Entity List matches.
Detailed intelligence on Alibaba Zhangbei. Tracks operational capacity, ownership structure, and the facility's strategic position within the global AI supply chain, including relevant export control restrictions.
As of 2026-04-27
Direct operator or owner of this facility per the Scrutica facility record.
Chain terminates at a publicly-listed entity (Alibaba). Subsequent ownership is observable via SEC filings or the equivalent national registry.
Description
Alibaba Zhangbei spans three adjacent sites, built from 2016 to 2025. It is part of China's "Eastern Data Western Compute" (东数西算) project launched in 2021. Zhangbei county is favorable for this project due to its abundant wind and solar power. We only track the power capacity added here since 2024, which is higher-density and more likely for AI workloads. The power capacity is based on the air-cooled chillers seen in satellite images. Compute capacity is mostly calculated from power, based on th
Notes
Total capital cost (2025 USD): $6.48B
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No jurisdictions documented in this chain’s available substrate — at least one ancestor must carry an HQ country in the canonical organization record for jurisdictional exposure to compute. Once entity-resolution backfills add HQ countries to the chain, this section will populate automatically on the next refresh.
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-04-27. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in Scrutica’s available substrate 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 Alibaba Zhangbei starts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph (ownership_chain_edges), normalized child→parent via the ownership_upward_edgesview. 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 substrate 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 substrate 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: 2026-04-27. 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.
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