GDS Holdings Limited announced that it has commenced construction of a major new project in Kunshan, approximately 45 km from Shanghai city center. The project consists of two data centers, Kunshan 2 and Kunshan 3, with total capacity of approximately 11,400 sqm of IT area, which has already been 100% pre-committed by strategic hyper-scale customers for their cloud expansion requirements. The new data centers will be developed on existing land owned by the Company adjacent to its Kunshan 1 data center, a facility which has been in operation for over eight years. The expected delivery date is 2020.