Operational
Colocation
Liquid cooling
Tier III

GDS Shanghai Waigaoqiao

GDS · Waigaoqiao

IT live
36 MW
Free to lease
5.0 MW
$ / kW·mo
$91
White space
205k ft²

Inventory

86% occupied

Power

36 MWlive

5.0 MW to lease · 31.0 MW in use

White space

205k ft²total

29k ft² free · 176k ft² occupied

19k m² · 2,660 m² free

Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.

Power

IT live36 MW
Free to lease5.0 MW
Utility feed60 MW
Campus / planned48 MW

About 24 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$91/kW·mo

9.7¢ industrial · 12.4¢ after PUE 1.28

Per MW·year
$1.1M
This site · 36 MW
$39M/yr
12 kW rack
$1,088/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

3.0× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $26M/yr less.

Shanghai industrial 35 kV+ · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
N+1
Opened
2013
Renewable match
40%
Rack density
12 kW
PUE
1.281.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
State Grid / China Southern Grid. Dual municipal feeds.

Cooling

Plant

Hybrid

Liquid

Deployed

Rack density

12 kW

H100-eq

WUE

Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.

Hybrid CRAH plus CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets.

Network carriers

4

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

5

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, Shanghai

31.350°, 121.580° · Asia

Tenants / users

Hyperscale, cloud, enterprise, finance

Notes

GDS flagship Shanghai campus. China's largest independent carrier-neutral platform.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.