Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei Data Center
DZhangjiakou, Hebei, China · CN · Alibaba Group Holding Limited
OperationalAI-Capable HyperscalePartially Verified
Environment
Water Stress
extremely highB
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (2023), province baseline water stress: Extremely High (>80%), 2023
Aquifer Stress
Not DisclosedND
Grid Carbon Intensity
652 gCO₂/kWhA
China Ministry of Ecology and Environment, 2023 provincial average grid CO2 emission factor (Announcement 2025 No. 47), 2023
Grid RegionNorth China Grid (Hebei North)
Drought Risk
Not DisclosedND
Facility
CategoryAI-Capable Hyperscale
StatusOperational
Year Opened2016
Capacity
Not DisclosedND
Not disclosed.
Location
41.2900, 114.7700 · CN
Campus AreaCoordinates are the centre of Zhangbei (OpenStreetMap), not the exact campus location.
RegionZhangjiakou, Hebei, China
Research statusPartially Verified
Evidence (2 sources)
阿里云新建三座超级数据中心 将增超百万台服务器Med trust
Journalism2020-07-31Ifeng Tech (reproducing Alibaba Cloud announcement)
Alibaba Cloud operates a super data center in Zhangbei (Hebei), as stated in its July 2020 announcement.
截至目前，阿里云在全球22个地域部署了上百个云数据中心，其中规划建设了5座超级数据中心，分别位于张北、河源、杭州、南通和乌兰察布 (Alibaba Cloud has five super data centers located in Zhangbei, Heyuan, Hangzhou, Nantong and Ulanqab).
Journalism2022-02-19IT之家
Confirms Zhangbei data center location (Hebei) and September 2016 start of operation.
在京津冀枢纽，张北数据中心已于 2016 年 9 月投产 (In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub, the Zhangbei data center went into operation in September 2016).
Researcher Notes
Operating since September 2016. Named by Alibaba Cloud in July 2020 as one of its five super data centers, with Heyuan, Hangzhou, Nantong and Ulanqab.