- First phase of the Jiashan computing center has been delivered, marking the launch of one of China Mobile’s largest regional AI infrastructure projects
- Facility anchors China’s “East Data, West Computing” strategy and supports government services, healthcare and enterprise AI workloads
China Mobile, one of the country’s three largest telecom carriers, has begun operations at its intelligent computing center in Zhejiang’s Jiashan, completing the first phase of deliveries for a roughly 5 billion yuan ($737 million) project.
The facility, handed over for commercial operation on June 30, forms part of China’s national computing infrastructure strategy.
Located in Jiaxing’s Jiashan county, the computing hub is a core project within the Yangtze River Delta National Computing Hub and one of China Mobile’s 11 regional hyperscale intelligent computing centers.
The campus is designed to accommodate an AI computing cluster of up to 50,000 accelerators.
Its first phase provides approximately 15,000 petaFLOPS of computing capacity, offering AI infrastructure for applications spanning government services, healthcare and transportation.
National infrastructure
The operator said the center will support workloads such as AI-assisted medical imaging, intelligent traffic management and cross-regional digital government services, while lowering the barrier for small and medium-sized businesses to access high-performance computing resources.
Jiashan is the only location in Zhejiang included among the country’s 10 national data center clusters under the “East Data, West Computing” initiative.
This is a nationwide program launched in 2022 to shift data processing workloads from China’s densely populated eastern regions to resource-rich western provinces while improving the overall allocation of computing capacity.
Capacity and technology
Local authorities said Jiashan has built a multi-tier computing network centered on the new facility, with total computing capacity exceeding 8.9 exaFLOPS, serving hundreds of thousands of government and enterprise users across Zhejiang.
The center uses 400G optical networking technology and is designed to deliver latency of around 20 milliseconds nationwide, 5 milliseconds within Zhejiang, and 1 millisecond within local metropolitan areas.
The low-latency network enables high-speed connections with computing hubs in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui.
The project was signed in September 2024, topped out in December 2025, and established its operating company in May 2026, marking its transition from construction to commercial operations.
