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title: "China: campuses in the ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/places/china
description: "The 5 campuses of the ledger in China, with their announced and evidenced capacity, their verdicts and the dated tests that name them."
---

# China

5 of the forty campuses in the ledger

Five of the forty campuses in the ledger are in China. One of them carries an announced or estimated capacity, 1,000 MW, and four announce no figure. The record evidences none of their capacity, at the end-of-August 2026 reading.

4 never dated · 1 not yet due

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## The campuses

| Campus | Where | Announced or estimated capacity (IT load) | Evidenced power (IT load) | The book’s verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Jinko Zhongwei](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/jinko-zhongwei) | Zhongwei, Ningxia, China | 1,000 MW | 0 MW | Not yet due |
| [Envision Galaxy Campus](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/envision-galaxy-campus) | Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China | not on file | not on file | Never dated |
| [GDS Ulanqab program](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/gds-ulanqab-program) | Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China | not on file | 0 MW | Never dated |
| [DeepSeek Ulanqab](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/deepseek-ulanqab) | Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China | not on file | 0 MW | Never dated |
| [Z.ai domestic-chip campus](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/z-ai-domestic-chip-campus) | China (location not public) | not on file | not on file | Never dated |

## Who is involved

- [DeepSeek](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/deepseek) 1 of 5
- [Envision Energy](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/envision-energy) 1 of 5
- [GDS](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/gds) 1 of 5
- [Jinko Power](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/jinko-power) 1 of 5
- [Z.ai (Zhipu)](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/z-ai-zhipu) 1 of 5

Every figure is the campus page’s own, read at the end of August 2026; each campus page carries its sources. [Places](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/places) · [All 40 campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger).

- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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