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The commissioning announcement covers power in detail, naming dedicated renewable generation, transmission and large-scale storage, and says nothing at all about cooling method, water source or volume.","servingUtility":null,"acreage":null,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":null,"notes":"Green-tech firm Envision Energy commissioned what it calls the world's largest single AI data center building at its Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia (announced 6 Aug 2026), powered by on-site wind/solar plus storage as part of its 'Mission Gobi' program. Envision claims the campus can scale beyond 2GW and eventually house up to one million AI accelerators, but only an initial building is commissioned and the full capacity is still being built out. Chinese-sourced capacity figures are frequently inflated and unverified by independent utility/permit data, so the 2GW figure is treated as a company claim.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Commissioning (company-claimed, Aug 2026)","value":"Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab commissioned Aug 6 2026; scalable beyond 2 GW"},{"label":"Main building (company-claimed)","value":"120,000 sq m AI supercomputing facility"},{"label":"Full build (company-claimed)","value":"Up to 1M accelerators and 1M PFLOPS"},{"label":"Power (company-claimed)","value":"Direct wind and solar with dedicated transmission and storage"},{"label":"Mission Gobi (company-claimed)","value":"5 GW of green AI compute in arid regions by 2030"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://interestingengineering.com/energy/envision-galaxy-campus-million-ai-accelerators-renewable-power","title":"China commissions world's largest data center campus built for 2 GW, 1M accelerators","sourceName":"Interesting Engineering"},{"url":"https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323410/20260806/envision-commissions-worlds-largest-ai-data-center-building-using-site-renewables.htm","title":"Envision Commissions World's Largest AI Data Center Building Using On-Site Renewables","sourceName":"Tech Times"},{"url":"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/envision-commissions-galaxy-campus-in-ulanqab-establishing-a-new-model-for-gigawatt-scale-ai-infrastructure-302844834.html","title":"Envision Commissions Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab, Establishing a New Model for Gigawatt-Scale AI Infrastructure","sourceName":"PR Newswire"},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/envision-commissions-galaxy-campus-in-ulanqab-establishing-a-new-model-for-gigawatt-scale-ai-infrastructure-302844834.html","date":"2026-08-06","title":"Envision Commissions Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab, Establishing a New Model for Gigawatt-Scale AI Infrastructure","publisher":"PR Newswire / Envision Energy"}],"reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-17T18:12:08.355Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T00:02:29.832Z","location":{"id":"577ee934-a104-463b-a36d-099a1a1f505e","name":"Ulanqab","slug":"ulanqab-inner-mongolia","kind":"city","parentLocationId":"1e62256a-73d0-407b-a80c-6e6afb939fb0","region":"Indiana","lat":41.0006,"lng":113.1155,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","aliases":[],"collisionRisk":"high","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-17T18:12:07.981Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-21T03:20:12.226Z"},"parties":[{"id":"99fa965b-6e55-4968-ac09-3aada6342e92","dataCenterId":"5fcab939-95bb-45dd-8828-a530e6feea38","companyId":null,"externalName":"Envision Energy","role":"developer","structureNotes":"Chinese green-tech / wind-turbine company; part of its 'Mission Gobi' 5GW green-computing initiative.","createdAt":"2026-08-17T18:12:09.580Z","company":null}],"capacityClaims":[{"id":"ef53db6f-b743-4238-a419-14a3bcb23c36","dataCenterId":"5fcab939-95bb-45dd-8828-a530e6feea38","series":"announced","valueGw":2,"asOf":"2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z","sourceUrl":"https://interestingengineering.com/energy/envision-galaxy-campus-million-ai-accelerators-renewable-power","sourceType":"press_release","evidenceTier":"claimed","supersedesId":null,"note":"Company claim of scaling beyond 2GW / up to 1M AI accelerators; only an initial building commissioned. 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