GDS
Howard and Thompson said GDS is a top contender. As of fourth-quarter 2021, China-based GDS has 96 self-developed data centers, with about 490,000 square-meters of total IT area in service, covering China’s primary economic hubs. The company’s customer base consists predominantly of hyperscale cloud service providers, large internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications carriers, IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations.