Envision’s Galaxy datacenter shows how fast China is building AI infrastructure

America has Stargate Abilene, the gigawatt-scale campus rising on the Texas plains for OpenAI. China has its own projects of similar size, and almost nobody outside the country has seen one up close.

Research firm SemiAnalysis got a look in September. It toured Envision Group’s Galaxy AI datacenter in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, and called the speed, scale, ultra low cost, and deep vertical integration “astonishing.”

Inside the Galaxy campus

Envision, a major renewable energy company in China, started commercial operations at Galaxy in August 2026. The long-term target is 3 GW of capacity by the end of 2028.

For a sense of scale, the main site covers 120,000 square meters. It is designed to hold up to 1 million AI accelerators, the specialized chips that train and run AI models.

The anticipated computing capacity is one million PFLOPS. One PFLOPS means a quadrillion calculations every second, so the campus is built to run that workload a million times over.

The buildout is happening in phases. Roughly 120 MW has already been commissioned, including capacity tied to agreements with major Chinese tech firms.

A 200 MW phase is expected to be handed over by late October 2026. More handovers are planned into 2027.

Demand appears locked in well ahead of time. Envision has secured offtake agreements running through 2029 to 2030, with customers in areas such as autonomous driving and content generation.

Most of the power is meant to be green. More than 80% of the electricity is slated to come from wind and solar.

The engineering also departs from the usual playbook. The facility uses what is described as the world’s first commercial integrated 800V DC power system, purportedly designed for live AI workloads.

The “West Texas” of China

SemiAnalysis describes Inner Mongolia as China’s fastest-growing AI datacenter region. It compares the area to West Texas, the American shorthand for wide open land, plenty of energy, and few neighbors to complain.

The comparison ends at the politics. Texas is dealing with its highest ever level of anti-datacenter sentiment, according to SemiAnalysis.

The region brings more than political goodwill. It has abundant renewable resources and a climate that helps with cooling, which matters when a building is packed with heat-producing chips.

Galaxy is the flagship of Envision’s Mission Gobi initiative. That program aims to build 5 GW of green AI datacenter capacity worldwide by 2030.

The math is notable. If Galaxy reaches its 3 GW goal, this one Ulanqab campus would make up the majority of the global Mission Gobi target.