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

A gigawatt-scale campus in Inner Mongolia, running mostly on wind and solar, is China's answer to Stargate Abilene 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 agreem...