Epoch AI, an independent research group that studies AI compute, estimates from satellite imagery that Huawei's AI campus in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, holds about 81,000 H100 equivalents of compute, about 7% of the compute at Colossus 2, an AI data-center campus in Tennessee.

Concept illustration: a wide pull-down screen has a sign lettered EPOCH AI at the centre of its top bar. On the screen's left is a column of three red-brown chip icons above a label lettered HUAWEI, and on its right are three rows of 13 dark grey chip icons above a long label lettered COLOSSUS 2. To the right of the screen stands a long-haired figure in a black top and light wide trousers. Under one arm the figure holds a partly rolled sheet printed with four boxes of small dark squares, and with the other hand the figure holds the cord hanging from the screen's lower right corner. Printed on the image: About 7% Huawei Horinger AI campus compute as a share of Colossus 2's, Epoch AI satellite-imagery estimate.

This is Epoch's model estimate, with a 90% interval of 36,000 to 141,000, and it assumes the campus holds no export-controlled NVIDIA chips. H100 equivalents convert different chips' compute into a number of NVIDIA H100s. The Colossus 2 figure comes from the same Epoch article, written by Ben Cottier, who leads Epoch's data-center project. Epoch concludes that Chinese data centers aren't short of power; the gap lies in chip performance and energy efficiency. By Epoch's estimate, this campus gets about 40% of the compute per unit of power that leading US campuses get. Epoch infers about 286MW of server power across four completed buildings from cooling equipment visible in satellite images. Combining that with its own estimate of Huawei chip sales, it puts about 105,000 Ascend 910C chips in operation (Epoch AI, 2026-11-06). How we checked →

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SecondSource (2026). "Epoch AI, an independent research group that studies AI compute, estimates from satellite imagery that Huawei's AI campus in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, holds about 81,000 H100 equivalents of compute, about 7% of the compute at Colossus 2, an AI data-center campus in Tennessee.." https://secondsource.io/en/news/2026-11-13-7/. Accessed access date.