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Tencent Gui'an Qixing Data Center

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Gui'an New Area, Guizhou, China · CN · Tencent

OperationalAI-Capable HyperscalePartially Verified

Environment

Water Stress
lowB

WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (2023), province baseline water stress: Low - Medium (10-20%), 2023

Aquifer Stress
Not DisclosedND
Grid Carbon Intensity
568 gCO₂/kWhA

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

Grid RegionChina Southern Grid (Guizhou)
Drought Risk
Not DisclosedND

Facility

CompanyTencent
CategoryAI-Capable Hyperscale
StatusOperational
Year Opened2018
Capacity
Not DisclosedND

Not disclosed. The site covers about 51 hectares, with more than 30,000 square meters of data halls in tunnels (Vertiv, 2020).

Location
26.4700, 106.4800 · CN
Campus AreaCoordinates are the centre of Gui'an New Area (Guiyang) (OpenStreetMap), not the exact campus location.
RegionGui'an New Area, Guizhou, China
Research statusPartially Verified

Evidence (2 sources)

China Daily (Chinese), report on Guizhou data centres, citing Guizhou DailyHigh trust
Journalism2026-06-12China Daily (citing Guizhou Daily)

Operator (Tencent), location (Gui'an, Guizhou), operation since 2018, and that the facility is in use as of June 2026. No MW or server figures are given for Tencent.

China's first cavern-type data centre, Tencent's Guian Qixing data centre, is located here and had been in operation as early as 2018. Quoting Zhu Hua, then Tencent's data centre technical director: Guian Qixing is the country's first 'ultra-high grade' data centre. Measured PUE is 1.1. The seismic fortification level is 9.
Vertiv case study: Tencent T-Block (Gui'an Qixing)Med trust
Journalism2020-08-06Vertiv (vendor case study)

Operator (Tencent), location (Gui'an New Area, Guizhou), tunnel area and site area. Vendor source, so only used alongside an independent source.

Vertiv was the electrical and mechanical turnkey contractor for Tencent's Gui'an Qixing data centre in Gui'an New Area, Guizhou, and took part in its overall design and R&D. The site covers about 770 mu and the tunnel area is more than 30,000 square metres.

Researcher Notes

Built partly inside hillside tunnels for natural cooling, with an expansion area outside. Tencent reports a PUE of about 1.1.

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