What China actually pays for intelligence-compute build-out, contract by contract, from public procurement awards — by region, card type and scale.
Industry analyses are explicit: mainland China IDC / colocation has no published price list — capacity is signed bilaterally between licensed operators and end customers, priced by committed power, term and region. There is no JLL/CBRE-style quarterly China colo rate report; finance teams have nowhere to look when budgeting.
Domestic sell-side research on compute build-out (capex, utilisation, returns) relies on channel checks and operator annual reports — no line-by-line recomputable transaction data.
Yet China does publish one legally-open, citable dataset: public procurement award notices — award amount, rack count, power capacity, card type and delivery schedule are all in the announcement.
| Adjacent slot | Incumbent | Overlap? |
|---|---|---|
| Global IDC rent / vacancy | CBRE / JLL / Cushman (HK/SG broker basis) | No — none covers mainland China transaction prices |
| Operator annual reports | the three state carriers (self-reported, not cross-comparable) | No — project-level award prices are not disclosed |
| Domestic compute price tracking | scattered channel checks (sell-side internal, not recomputable) | No — no public benchmark |
| Systematic award-price benchmark | None | The gap this index fills |
Whitespace check performed 8 November 2026. Sources listed at the foot of this page.
| Region | East / West / Northeast / the eight national hub nodes |
| Card type | domestic N-series vs imported H-series |
| Project type | system procurement / facility EPC / O&M services / compute leasing |
| Buyer type | government / SOE / carrier / private |
| Cleaning rules | bundled projects including software platforms are excluded or flagged; framework agreements revised to executed amounts; no FX conversion — CNY basis |
| Source | Content | Capture | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China Government Procurement (ccgp.gov.cn) | central-budget award notices | site search scraping | daily | statutory public |
| Provincial public-resource trading centres | local platform company, UDIC and SOE compute tenders | per-province portal scraping (~31 sources) | weekly | statutory public |
| Carrier procurement platforms | China Mobile / Telecom / Unicom group and provincial tenders | official notice scraping | weekly | public |
| Listed-company award announcements | Sugon, Inspur, Foxconn Industrial Internet and others | CNINFO scraping | event-driven | statutory public |
Feeds GRVI (China supply cost is the reference series for residuals); cross-checks against rentgpu.link's 13 Chinese platform rental prices
| Cadence | Output | Access |
|---|---|---|
| weekly | incremental award-record CSV: notice link, buyer, winner, amount, scale, card type | free |
| monthly | CIDX reading, stratified tables and a short compute-infrastructure pulse note | free |
| quarterly | China Compute Build-out Quarterly: volumes, unit-price trend, regional mix, competition metrics | free |
| machine | /api/v1/cidx/latest.json · record list CSV | Pro |
Field shape is identical across the family: ticker / status / reading / observations / unit / cadence / methodology_version / next_publication. Parse once, cover all five.
| Stage | Action | Acceptance (recomputable) |
|---|---|---|
| 30-day probe | 500 cleaned award records (last 24 months); first region-by-card-type unit price table | one sell-side desk or leasing company asks for a copy |
| 90 days | methodology page + Zenodo v1.0 + automated weekly pipeline | first citation — a sell-side note naming the data source is enough |
| 12 months | 4th quarterly; first paid sell-side licence; working paper on SSRN | 2+ paying institutions; 3+ third-party citations |
Free to cite for research and press. Always give the ticker, the version and the URL — dropping any of the three breaks machine traceability.
Other citation formats (APA / MLA / Chicago / BibTeX) · Data licence