Alibaba Cloud Nantong Data Center
DNantong, Jiangsu, 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. Two 110 kV substations were built to supply the site, planned for 300,000 servers (China Daily, 2019).
Evidence (2 sources)
Alibaba Cloud operates a super data centre in Nantong, completed and entering service in 2020.
7月31日，阿里云宣布位于南通、杭州和乌兰察布的三座超级数据中心正式落成，陆续开服 (On July 31, Alibaba Cloud announced that super data centers in Nantong, Hangzhou and Ulanqab were officially completed and would gradually begin service).
Alibaba's Jiangsu cloud computing and data centre is located in the Nantong Comprehensive Bonded Zone; power infrastructure in operation from February 2019.
"Two 110-kv substations for the Alibaba Jiangsu cloud computing and data center officially started operations"; "in Nantong Comprehensive Bonded Zone on Feb 28." "The substations ... will power 300,000 servers in the center."
Researcher Notes
In the Nantong Comprehensive Bonded Zone. Named by Alibaba Cloud in July 2020 among three newly completed super data centers; parts of the site were in use from 2019.