RLB Rider Levett Bucknall: Gui’an Data Centre

The Gui’an Data Centre, supported by RLB – Rider Levett Bucknall, is a large-scale, next-generation digital infrastructure facility located in the Gui’an New Area of Guizhou Province—China’s national hub for big data development. Known for its cool climate, stable geology, and government-backed digital-industry ecosystem, Gui’an has become a strategic cluster for hyperscale data centers. RLB plays a key role in the project’s cost management, project controls, and delivery assurance, ensuring the facility is engineered for resilience, efficiency, and long-term scalability. The centre is designed to support hyperscale cloud platforms, financial services, AI workloads, government systems, and large enterprise IT environments within mainland China’s premier big-data zone.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Tier III/Tier IV design principles, typical of Gui’an hyperscale deployments, incorporating concurrently maintainable or fault-tolerant architecture.
2. High-density power capacity supporting compute-intensive workloads such as AI, machine learning, and large-scale virtualization.
3. Advanced cooling technologies, leveraging the region’s naturally low ambient temperatures, optimized free-cooling systems, and energy-efficient chilled-water plants.
4. Cost-optimized design and lifecycle planning managed by RLB, ensuring predictable CAPEX/OPEX across multi-phase expansion.
5. Modular and scalable white-space layout, supporting rapid build-out and future expansion aligned with hyperscale cloud requirements.
6. Environmental sustainability initiatives, including reduced PUE performance targets, renewable-energy integration, and alignment with China’s green-data-centre policies.

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Multi-layer security architecture including perimeter protection, 24/7 surveillance, biometrics, and controlled entry zones.
2. Compliance-aligned with China’s national standards for big-data facilities, cybersecurity (MLPS), and government-sector hosting requirements.
3. Fire detection and suppression systems, typically VESDA-type early smoke detection and inert-gas suppression engineered for large-scale facilities.
4. Architectural and engineering risk management supported by RLB through international best practices in resilience, quality assurance, and lifecycle performance.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

1. Located within Gui’an’s national big-data industrial cluster, featuring dense fiber-optic routes and multi-operator backbone access.
2. Carrier-neutral connectivity, allowing enterprises, cloud platforms, and state-owned telecoms to interconnect freely.
3. Direct access to national backbone networks and major cloud-node interconnections, enabling low-latency routing across China.
4. Ideal for cloud hyperscalers, government clouds, CDN operators, and enterprises deploying high-availability multi-region architectures.

💼 Who It Serves

1. Hyperscale cloud providers expanding across China’s primary big-data region.
2. Government platforms and public-service systems requiring secure, sovereign hosting.
3. Financial institutions and fintech operators needing compliance-ready, high-reliability infrastructure.
4. AI/ML, big-data analytics, and HPC workloads requiring high-density power and cooling.
5. Enterprises and technology service providers deploying large-scale or hybrid cloud environments in Western China.