Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 189

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 189
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 review, and if the project has been completed, it shall not be put into production and use. In addition, energy conservation acceptance shall be conducted before a project is put into operation. With respect to projects which are divided and constructed into several phases, the corresponding energy conservation acceptance shall be conducted in phases. In the case of any major change in the construction content and energy efficiency level of a fixed-asset investment project passing energy conservation review, the construction entity shall file an amendment application with the energy conservation review authority. Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hebei, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and cities have formulated detailed regulations on the review of energy conservation of fixed-asset investment within their jurisdictions, and reinforced interim and post-filing supervision.

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New regulations, policies and rules have been issued with respect to the construction or development of new data centers, and rebuilding or expansion of existing data centers. For example,

  The NDRC, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the MIIT and National Energy Administration jointly published the Guiding Opinion on Accelerating the Construction of National...  
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  The NDRC, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the MIIT and National Energy Administration jointly published the Implementation Plan for Carrying Out Target Requirements on ...  
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  On April 25, 2021, the Energy Bureau of Guangdong Province published the Notice on Clarifying the Relevant Requirements for Energy Consumption Guarantee of Data Centers in Guangdong Province, p...  
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  On July 4, 2021, the MIIT published the Three Year Action Plan on the Development of New Data Center (2021-2023), pursuant to which the PUE of large and above scale data centers which are newly...  
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  On February 14, 2022, the General Office of People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, or the GOPGB, issued the