Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center
European fairytale castle campus in Guizhou housing one million cloud servers
The story
Looking more like an idyllic European university campus with fairy-tale castles and stone bridges than a server farm, Huawei's Gui'an Cloud Data Center is one of the world's most surprising tech campuses. Spanning a million square meters among the green hills of Guizhou, the complex houses over one million servers beneath picturesque pitched roofs and clock towers. Water drawn from nearby mountain lakes and natural valley air circulation maintain a clean PUE of 1.12.
Notable
- Designed to resemble classic European architecture with palaces, clock towers, and lake bridges.
- Engineered to house over 1,000,000 servers, making it Huawei's largest global cloud facility.
- Cooled by natural lake water and crisp Guizhou mountain air, driving PUE down to 1.12.
- Serves as the global headquarters for Huawei Cloud training and corporate IT disaster recovery.
Expansions
- 2021: Phase 1 launched featuring European classical fairytale castle architecture
- 2023: scaled to support over 1,000,000 servers across multiple cloud business zones
Sources
- Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center Overview · Huawei Cloud · 2021-12-20
- Huawei unveils huge Guiyang cloud hub as it pivots to enterprise services · South China Morning Post · 2021-12-23
Part of the open famous data centers dataset (CC BY 4.0). Updated 2026-10-15. A correction? da@mustardseedmt.com
What is Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center famous for?
European fairytale castle campus in Guizhou housing one million cloud servers
Where is Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center?
Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center is in Gui'an New Area, Guizhou, China (26.389, 106.524). It is operated by Huawei.
How much power does Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center use?
About 200 MW of IT load and 230 MW in total, according to the sources listed on this page.
What is the PUE of Huawei Gui'an Cloud Data Center?
1.12, reported.