Recently, the 2025 Businessweek Bloomberg Green Gold China esg 50 most noteworthy list (hereinafter referred to as the 'Bloomberg Green Gold esg 50 list') was officially unveiled. gds holdings was successfully selected for the third consecutive year on the Businessweek Bloomberg Green Gold esg 50 most noteworthy list due to its active practices and outstanding performance in environmental, social, and governance areas, and was awarded the title of '2025 Leading Enterprise,' becoming the only datacenter company selected for three consecutive years.
This year's Bloomberg Green Gold esg 50 list selection utilized Bloomberg esg data (scores and index), comprehensive enterprise interviews, esg data research, and expert review panel opinions, with a rigorous multi-round selection process, resulting in 40 companies emerging as winners of three major awards.
After winning the 'Annual Notable Environmental Company' award in the previous two selections, gds holdings has continuously excelled in all dimensions of esg, once again gaining high recognition from the review panel and receiving the title of '2025 Leading Enterprise.'
In the past year, the company fully leveraged its global strategy, technology, platform, and management advantages to achieve outstanding performance in five areas: green transformation, excellent governance, intelligent innovation for the future, collaborative win-win, and human-centric. In July this year, gds holdings topped the datacenter company's wind power performance list in the 'Green Cloud' report released by the international environmental organization Greenpeace.
Overview of the 2024 Green Cloud - Company Rankings (Datacenter)
As of 2023, gds holdings has achieved a renewable energy usage ratio of 38.0%, with a total of 35 datacenters utilizing 100% renewable energy, and the optimal annual PUE for self-built datacenters is 1.15; the company has accumulated a total of 141 authorized patents, with 55 new patent applications, and 36 datacenters have obtained Uptime M&O certification.
Looking ahead, gds holdings will steadily progress towards the goal of achieving 100% renewable energy usage and operational carbon neutrality by 2030, while promoting its own and the industry's green and low-carbon transformation, providing higher quality services and products to meet diverse customer needs, and continuously creating more value for society.
