Envision launches one-million-PetaFLOPS AI computing hub in Inner Mongolia

The Ulanqab facility is designed around direct green power supply and a 2GW planned capacity, underscoring how energy access is becoming central to large-scale AI computing.

Summary

Envision Energy has officially launched the Envision Galaxy Base in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, describing it as a supercomputing hub with one million PetaFLOPS of computing scale, parallel processing capability for one million cards and a total planned power capacity of 2GW. The company says the 120,000-square-meter site is China's largest AI computing park and the world's most powerful single-site Artificial Intelligence Data Center in token output capacity. The project is built around a direct green power connection model that uses self-built wind farms and dedicated transmission lines to supply electricity to AI chip clusters, a design aimed at lowering one of the biggest cost items for AI data centers, where electricity accounts for about 80% of daily operating expenditure. Envision says Ulanqab's role as one of China's eight national East Data West Computing hub nodes, along with its strong wind and solar resources and a local energy mix that is 67% green power, gives the site both network and energy advantages. The launch also fits a wider buildout in Ulanqab, where public data shows computing scale was 125,000 PetaFLOPS in 2025, a target of more than 200,000 PetaFLOPS was set for early 2026, and actual operating scale reached 165,000 PetaFLOPS in the first half of 2026. Envision has said it wants to extend the model beyond China, targeting 5GW of green AI computing centers in Gobi Desert regions globally by 2030.

Terms & Concepts
  • PetaFLOPS: A unit of computing performance equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
  • Artificial Intelligence Data Center: A data center designed to run and support large-scale artificial intelligence computing workloads.
  • East Data West Computing: A Chinese infrastructure program that routes data and computing demand toward western regions with stronger energy and land resources.