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<ul><li>Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.</li><li>While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.</li><li>“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.</li></ul>

Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.

Southeast Asia Is Looking Mighty Fine to China’s Data Center Firms

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>GDS reported in-line FY4Q22 and guided a soft FY23E outlook with revenue/ EBITDA growth of +8.6%/ 6.2% YoY respectively as the company focuses on existing backlog delivery with tighter control on capex (-33.5% YoY to RMB7.5bn).</li><li>Despite short-term pain, we like GDS improvement in customer and geographical mix and that the reliance on Alibaba and Tencent is decreasing.</li><li>We remain positive on long-term data center demand given Digital Economy and AI development. Maintain BUY.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

GDS reported in-line FY4Q22 and guided a soft FY23E outlook with revenue/ EBITDA growth of +8.6%/ 6.2% YoY respectively as the company focuses on existing backlog delivery with tighter control on capex (-33.5% YoY to RMB7.5bn).Despite short-term pain, we like GDS improvement in customer and geographical mix and that the reliance on Alibaba and Tencent is decreasing.We remain positive on long-term data center demand given Digital Economy and AI development. Maintain BUY.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

GDS (9698 HK) – Focus on quality growth with cautious expansion plan

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GDS Holdings Limited operates as a leading developer and operator of data centers. The Company offers colocation and managed services, as well as direct private connection to major public cloud platforms. GDS Holdings serves large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications, and IT service providers in China.

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Southeast Asia Is Looking Mighty Fine to China’s Data Center Firms

Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia,...

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GDS (9698 HK) – Focus on quality growth with cautious expansion plan

GDS reported in-line FY4Q22 and guided a soft FY23E outlook with revenue/ EBITDA growth of +8.6%/ 6.2% YoY respectively as the company focuses on...

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