Property investor GLP has begun work on a 200MW data center campus in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.. The company revealed on 4 September that work on the first 40MW of IT capacity has begun for the data center.. GLP will invest a total of RMB 4 billion ($600m) and expects the campus to be one of the largest data center projects in the Greater Bay Area..
The data center is being purpose-built for an unnamed “Internet and cloud services company,” which is expanding its partnership with GLP.. “We are delighted to expand our partnership with a leading hyperscale customer and deeply value the continued trust they have placed in GLP.
AI is creating one of the most significant infrastructure opportunities of the next decade, and the scale of this new campus validates our strategy of building a differentiated digital infrastructure platform for the AI era,” Gavin Shen, president of digital infrastructure, GLP China, said.. “By combining infrastructure development, data center operations, energy integration, and capital management capabilities, we provide customers with end-to-end support that helps them deploy faster, scale more efficiently, and create lasting value in the digital economy.”. The data center will use hybrid liquid and air cooling systems, capable of supporting liquid-cooled density of up to 140kW per rack.
GLP is using modular construction techniques on the site, including prefabricated components which the company says will enable delivery in as fast as four months.. Foshan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. It is a secondary data center market in China, with the largest hubs in the country located around Shanghai, Beijing, and Langfang..
GLP has been involved in the data center business in China since 2018. The company says it currently has a footprint of 20 operational and under-development data centers with 1.4GW of IT capacity.. In July 2026, GLP signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Ulanqab Government to jointly develop multi-GW hyperscale digital infrastructure in Inner Mongolia.
In April 2025, the company closed its first digital infrastructure-focused fund in China, planning to buy a data center with the proceeds.. In 2024, GLP sold its international business unit, including data center platform Ada Infrastructure, to Ares Management Corporation in a deal worth $3.7bn so that it could focus on the Chinese market..
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