Alibaba Zhejiang Cloud Computing Renhe Data Center
DHangzhou, Zhejiang, China · CN · Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Environment
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (2023), province baseline water stress: Medium - High (20-40%), 2023
China Ministry of Ecology and Environment, 2023 provincial average grid CO2 emission factor (Announcement 2025 No. 47), 2023
Facility
Not disclosed.
Evidence (2 sources)
Operator (Alibaba) and name of the Renhe data centre in Hangzhou; opened in September 2020; located in Qianjiang Economic Development Zone per the body text.
阿里巴巴在杭州的首座云计算数据中心——阿里巴巴浙江云计算仁和数据中心在钱江经济开发区落成揭幕。 (Alibaba's first cloud computing data center in Hangzhou, the Alibaba Zhejiang Cloud Computing Renhe Data Center, was inaugurated in the Qianjiang Economic Development Zone.)
Hangzhou data centre completed in July 2020 as one of Alibaba Cloud's five super data centres. The link between this announcement and the Renhe facility is by timing and city, not an explicit name match.
此次新建成的杭州数据中心就部署了全球最大的液冷服务器集群 (the newly completed Hangzhou data centre hosts the world's largest liquid-cooled server cluster).
Researcher Notes
Opened in September 2020 as Alibaba's first cloud data center in Hangzhou. Alibaba says it hosts its largest liquid-cooled server cluster, with a PUE of 1.09 (company figure).