A 1.6bn yuan data center opened last Friday in the west zone of the Chengdu High-tech Zone in Sichuan, China.

The Chengdu Wanguo Data Center is the largest disaster recovery data center in Asia, according to a report by The China Daily.

The report said the new location helps fill a gap in the market, with most disaster recovery centers based in Chinas eastern regions: the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and along the Bohai Economic Belt.

The data center is run by the Chengdu government, which constructed the data center for its National Information Disaster Recover Base.