Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 200

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 200
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 in the construction, operation and maintenance of other public infrastructure or public service systems, shall perform its obligation of cyber data security protection and provide secure, stable and continuous services in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations and contractual stipulations.

On January 13, 2025, the General Office of the MIIT issued the Notice on Strengthening the Customer Data Security Protection in Internet Data Centers, which provides that “ IDCs” as new-generation information infrastructure, shall specify interface of security responsibilities (including to specify protection responsibilities and obligations of all the signing parties based on the cooperation mode and content under the customer contracts, third-party service provider contracts, etc.), strengthen organizational building and organizational safeguard, enhance customer management, reinforce the safeguard of the security of customer data, properly handle emergency incidents, provide capability of security protection services, safeguard the security of computer room facilities, properly manage the supply chain of equipment, secure data storage and computing, ensure data transmission security, and strengthen safety management of key services, etc. Along with this notice, the Implementation Guidelines for Customer Data Protection in Internet Data Centers are issued to provide guidance for IDCs to promote their customer data protection.

Regulations Related to Artificial Intelligence

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence is driving an explosion in demand for digital infrastructure which provides scalable storage mechanisms, such as cloud storage, and accommodates the big data needs integral to artificial intelligence technologies. Following such trend, regulations, policies and rules have been issued in order to meet the demand for data and computing power propelled by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence technologies. For example,

  On July 4, 2021, the MIIT published the Three Year Action Plan on the Development of New Data Center (2021-2023), pursuant to which new data centers should be new infrastructures that support t...  
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  On December 12, 2021, the State Council issued the Plan for Development of the Digital Economy During the 14th Five-Year Period, according to which, the intelligent upgrading of infrastructure ...  
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  On July 29, 2022, the Ministry of Science & Technology, the Ministry of Education, the MIIT, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Health Com...