Anhui's data centers are concentrated in one city chosen by Beijing. In 2022 the national "East Data, West Computing" programme set up a network of eight hubs and ten data center clusters, and Wuhu, Anhui's second-largest city, became one of the two clusters of the Yangtze River Delta hub, meant to supply computing to Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Wuhu's pitch, repeated in its local media, is fibre latency of about 5 milliseconds to Shanghai and Hangzhou and 2 to Nanjing, cheaper land and power than the coast, and Anhui's position as the only Yangtze River Delta province with a net surplus of electricity. The city has set itself the goal of becoming a "computing power center city"; the core of the cluster's starting zone is a development called China Digital Island.
Huawei is the anchor. Its Huawei Cloud East China (Wuhu) data center on China Digital Island was already operating in 2025, when Huawei deployed its CloudMatrix 384 supernodes there at scale, and a Huawei executive, Yu Chengdong, said it would supply computing for the company's intelligent vehicle research. In September 2026 Huawei unveiled in Wuhu a four-storey "3D data center" that stacks cooling, computing, power and backup power vertically, which it says can host Ascend supernode clusters of more than 100,000 accelerator cards. Huawei says more than 90 percent of the mechanical and electrical systems can be prefabricated and that the Wuhu facility took about nine months to build against 18 to 24 months for a conventional build, and that its cloud business is deploying the design at its core hubs in Gui'an, Inner Mongolia and Wuhu. "We treat the data center as a standard product that can be replicated at scale, rather than a bespoke engineering project," said Huawei senior vice president Ren Shulu. The state telecom carriers are here too: China Telecom opened its only group-level cloud computing center in Anhui in Wuhu in 2017, and China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom all have computing centers connected to the Wuhu cluster's platform.
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The scale is described in the state's own units. By September 2025 the Wuhu cluster platform connected 34 data centers with nearly 640 petaflops of general computing, nearly 26,000 petaflops of AI computing, 33.3 petaflops of supercomputing and 2,070 qubits of quantum computing, and Wuhu held 70 percent of Anhui's AI computing capacity, according to a WeChat analysis republished by 36Kr; a Wuhu government release, undated, reports 28 more data centers added to what is now also the Anhui provincial scheduling platform, now linked with those of five other central provinces. The largest users named are iFlytek, NIO and Zhixiang Future. No figure for the cluster's electricity or water use has been published, and no local opposition to any Anhui data center has been reported.
The doubts on record are commercial. The Wuhu government itself, in a report quoted by 36Kr, acknowledged "a certain gap in terms of talent resources, industrial foundation, and technological innovation" and that "the electricity price is higher compared with the western hubs." Researchers cited in the same piece pointed to poor matching of supply and demand, with computing utilisation in Hefei at only 65 percent. Competing Yangtze River Delta clusters are targeting similar capacity, 60,000 petaflops of AI computing by 2027 in the integrated demonstration zone alone. An Anhui provincial decision on the digital economy that took effect on October 1, 2025 commits the province to accelerating the Wuhu cluster further.
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| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei Wuhu JiangbeiWuhu | Huawei Cloud | Not reported | ||
| Huawei Wuhu SanshanWuhu | Huawei Cloud | Not reported |
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