Gds Holdings' international business has once again received a $1 billion investment in shares, helping to accelerate the strategic layout in overseas emerging markets.

GDS Holdings announced today that its international business has received another $1 billion in equity financing, led by Coatue Management and The Baupost Group. Earlier this year, the company's international business completed a $0.672 billion Series A equity financing. The two rounds of financing total $1.672 billion, which will help accelerate the company's strategic layout in overseas emerging markets.

GDS Holdings Chairman and CEO, Huang Wei

Stating: "We are delighted that our international business has once again successfully received financing from top global investment institutions. Over the past few years, GDS Holdings has strategically positioned itself in the SIJORI (Singapore-Johor-Indonesia Riau Islands) and surrounding areas, effectively meeting the growing demand for hyperscale data centers in these emerging regions by leading global companies, thereby establishing a leading position in the Asia-Pacific market.

This round of financing will further consolidate the company's market position in the Asia-Pacific region and accelerate the company's development in the Asia-Pacific and several other emerging markets. We believe that in the future, it will create greater value for GDS Holdings' shareholders.

for GDS Holdings' shareholders to create greater value.

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Coatue Management founder Philippe Laffont and partner Robert Yin

It is stated: "The datacenter is a key infrastructure supporting the future development of AI and cloud computing. As GDS International's business is rapidly expanding, it has become one of the most competitive datacenter platform operators in the Asia-Pacific market. We look forward to working together to build a world-class next-generation digital infrastructure to meet the wide-ranging demands of future large-scale and AI intelligent computing power."

The Baupost Group partner Richard Carona mentioned: "We are very bullish on the international business expansion of GDS Holdings and are pleased to support their development through Series B financing."

"We are very bullish on the international business expansion of GDS Holdings and are pleased to support their development through Series B financing," said Richard Carona, partner at The Baupost Group.

The rapid iteration and extensive application of AI globally have brought another historic opportunity to the datacenter industry. This successful financing will provide solid financial support for GDS Holdings to continuously expand its strategic layout in the Asia-Pacific region and more emerging digital economic hubs.

About GDS Holdings Limited

GDS Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GDS; Hong Kong Stock Exchange: 9698) is a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers in China and Southeast Asia. The company's facilities are strategically located in major economic centers where there is a significant demand for high-performance data center services. GDS also builds, operates, and transfers data centers in other locations chosen by its customers to meet their broader requirements. The company's data centers have large net room area, high power capacity, density, efficiency, and multiple redundancies in critical systems. GDS is neutral to operators and cloud service providers, enabling GDS' customers to access major telecommunications networks and use China's and the world's largest public cloud services hosted in the many facilities of GDS. The company offers colocation and a range of value-added services, including colocation hybrid cloud services with direct private links to leading public clouds, managed network services, and resale of public cloud services when needed. GDS has a track record of 23 years in service delivery, successfully meeting the outsourcing requirements of some of China's largest and most demanding customers for data center services. The company's customer base mainly includes large cloud service providers, major internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications operators, IT service providers, as well as large private and multinational companies in China.

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