Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053058
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Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: 424B5
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#### European Economic Area
The ADSs are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or in the United Kingdom. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID

#### II”);
or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive 2016/97 (as amended, the “Insurance Distribution Directive”), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Directive 2017/1129 (as amended or superseded, the “Prospectus Regulation”). Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the ADSs or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the ADSs or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation. This prospectus supplement has been prepared on the basis that any offer of ADSs in any Member State of the EEA will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation, from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of ADSs.

This prospectus supplement is not a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation. This prospectus supplement has been prepared on the basis that any offer of ADSs in any Member State of the EEA or the United Kingdom will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from a requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of ADSs. This prospectus supplement is not a prospectus for the purpose of the Prospectus Regulation.

#### Hong Kong
The ADSs may not be offered or sold in Hong Kong by means of any document other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32 of the Laws of Hong Kong) (“Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance”), or (ii) to “professional