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Panoramic view of the AliCloud Qiandao Lake Data CenterPanoramic view of the AliCloud Qiandao Lake Data Center
Alibaba's computing unit AliCloud opened its eighth data center on Tuesday. With the facility at Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang province, the company aims to set new benchmark in energy efficiency and data center technologies.
Dedicated for Alibaba's IaaS public cloud offering, Aliyun, the new data center is an 11-floor building providing 30,000m2 of floor space. With five floors of data hall space, the data center has a capacity to hold 50,000 servers. The project is a partnership with local data center facility provider Waton Cloud Data.
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