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Baidu Yangquan Cloud Computing and Intelligent Computing Centre

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Yangquan and Datong, Shanxi, China · CN · Baidu

OperationalExplicit AI InfrastructurePartially Verified

Environment

Water Stress
highB

WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (2023), province baseline water stress: High (40-80%), 2023

Aquifer Stress
Not DisclosedND
Grid Carbon Intensity
663 gCO₂/kWhA

China Ministry of Ecology and Environment, 2023 provincial average grid CO2 emission factor (Announcement 2025 No. 47), 2023

Grid RegionNorth China Grid (Shanxi)
Drought Risk
Not DisclosedND

Facility

CompanyBaidu
CategoryExplicit AI Infrastructure
StatusOperational
Year Opened2014
Capacity
Not DisclosedND

Not disclosed. Designed for more than 160,000 servers; Baidu reported 4 EFLOPS of computing power and an average PUE of 1.08 in 2022.

Location
38.0900, 113.5300 · CN
Campus AreaCoordinates are the centre of Yangquan (OpenStreetMap), not the exact campus location.
RegionYangquan and Datong, Shanxi, China
Research statusPartially Verified

Evidence (5 sources)

Science and Technology Daily: Yangquan builds digital new city and computing power economyHigh trust
Journalism2026-08-19Science and Technology Daily (stdaily.com)

Operator (Baidu), location (Yangquan), an intelligent computing centre in operation, and planned expansion as of August 2026.

Yangquan has built the Baidu and Yunfeng intelligent computing centres, bringing local computing capacity to 7,000P, and placing its overall computing power in Shanxi's first tier. The city will speed up the expansion and upgrading of the Baidu and Yunfeng facilities.
IT之家: Yangquan intelligent computing centre opensMed trust
Journalism2022-12-27IT之家 (ITHome)

Operator (Baidu), Yangquan intelligent computing centre, 4 EFLOPS and PUE 1.08 as of December 2022.

The Yangquan Intelligent Computing Centre is currently the largest single-site and most technologically advanced data centre in Asia. Computing power reaches 4 EFLOPS, with an average PUE of 1.08.
36Kr: Inside Baidu's largest data centreMed trust
Journalism2017-06-1936Kr

Operator (Baidu), Yangquan location, groundbreaking 2012, operation from 2014, and the server design capacity.

The Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Centre broke ground in Yangquan, Shanxi, on 19 August 2012 and entered official operation in 2014. Total floor area is 120,000 sq m, with a designed server capacity of over 160,000.
Yicai Global: Baidu is expanding its Shanxi cloud centre faster than plannedMed trust
Journalism2020-06-01Yicai Global

Operator (Baidu), Yangquan location, phase one completion (2018) and server count, and phase two progress as of June 2020.

Baidu finished the major structural work on its 1.4 billion yuan cloud centre more than 20 days ahead of schedule. The 86,000 sq m facility is in Robin Li's hometown Yangquan. The first phase, completed in 2018, houses more than 150,000 servers.
QbitAI: Baidu cloud computing centre finishes structure earlyMed trust
Journalism2020-06-01QbitAI (量子位)

Operator (Baidu), Yangquan location, phase two specifics (four modules, area, investment) as of June 2020.

The phase two project of Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Centre was topped out 20+ days ahead of plan. Planned total investment of 1.4 billion yuan, total floor area 86,000 sq m, with D9, D10, D11 and D12 data centre modules and an extension plant building.

Researcher Notes

Construction began in 2012 and the center opened in 2014. A second phase was built from 2020, and Baidu opened an AI computing center on the site in 2022.

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