Envision has delivered the first 120 megawatts of its Galaxy AI data center campus in the Chahar High-tech Zone at Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, in less than a year, and plans up to 800 megawatts of IT capacity across four phases by the end of 2027 for two unnamed internet company customers, according to a SemiAnalysis report carried by Tom’s Hardware. SemiAnalysis put the cost at about one fifth of comparable United States projects, against roughly 820 megawatts of critical IT capacity at the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas.
The power design is the point of difference. Envision is building its own supply, with wind farms of 420 megawatts combined capacity intended to provide more than 60 percent of the electricity for the first two phases, plus four-hour battery storage, rather than relying on on-site gas turbines as United States developers have. A 5-megawatt pilot hall uses solid-state transformers to convert 10 kilovolt alternating current directly to 800-volt direct current for the server racks. Galaxy is the first project in Envision’s wider Inner Mongolia plans, which SemiAnalysis put at 3 gigawatts in total, and the report noted that buildings and power do not by themselves solve China’s constrained access to advanced accelerators.