A Data Centre Priced Electricity at RMB 0.36 a Unit

The Zhongwei campus plans 1.169 million standard racks across 58 buildings, with the B campus running over 80% green power.

China Mobile’s Zhongwei data centre in Ningxia, reported on 13 November 2026, sits on 2,010 mu with a master plan of 58 machine-room buildings providing 1.169 million standard racks, of which 17 are in production and 10 under construction. Its B campus is the country’s first large-scale source-grid-load-storage integrated demonstration project, with IT capacity of 202 MW, green power usage holding above 80%, and electricity priced at about 0.36 yuan per kilowatt-hour; the Minning pilot links compute scheduling to grid demand. Securities Times noted that power accounts for more than 60% of data centre operating cost, and that prefabricated construction has cut a machine-room building’s build time from three years to five to eight months. The commercial read is that western China’s energy endowment is being converted directly into a compute price advantage, which is why the green-power concept moved on the same day.