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| The two largest orders were from Internet companies in the live streaming and the short video vertical, which continues to perform strongly |
| We are leveraging our competitive strength to build a leading presence in regional hub markets, win landmark commitment from global and China customers and finance the business independently |
| This gives us time-to-market advantage and important considerations as customers are accelerating procurement to meet AI demand |
| I think GDS will grow -- we will grow from a lot of the competitors, right? So I think it's good |
| But of course, we are very well positioned to respond to any change |
| I mean we have very good near term with our overseas customers, right? So I think from the Q4 and the next few quarters, the ramp-up is -- we are very happy this ramp-up speed, right? So I think you will see the overseas will contribute more, right, in terms of next year |
| For International, our financial objectives are to create a second growth engine, which enhances our equity value valuation |
| We believe that INA will be a great partner for us because of their complementary strengths, unique relationships and value add -- the JV is for all of our developments in Indonesia |
| This will -- we're well positioned to respond to all the AI demand in the next few years |
| We are seeing strong demand for our capacity in Johor from global and China customers |
| When this demand starts to materialize in size, we will be very well positioned |
| So this is, I think, in the midterm and long term is very good for data center per year because historically, the discretion number, including a lot of the stuff like CDN, like a network, all of the call it, integrity as a cloud |
| We've received very strong interest from regional and global investors and expect to close the capital raise in 1Q '24 |
| Furthermore, we have already proven our execution capability in Johor by deploying our prefab technology, including liquid cooling modules to successfully deliver hyperscale capacity in just over one year |
| We are making good progress in the execution of our International strategy |
| So I think now Batam has a unique position |
| So I think this will get in the future will create more healthy data center demand for all the industry |
| In 3Q '23, revenue increased by 6.4% and adjusted EBITDA increased by 5.6% year-on-year |
| And we'll -- given the time, they will grow their revenue properly and will drive the more high-quality data center demand in the future |
| This is a very unique position for the whole region |
| So INA is a very good partner |
| So we are very confident to get a lot of demand for time data center |
| AI will require a lot of data center capacity in Tier 1 markets, which plays to our strength |
| Cash flow before financing for this segment was, in fact, positive in 3Q '23, but it will take another year or so before it is consistently positive quarter after quarter |
| Second, delivering the backlog and the increasing capacity utilization and setting a high bar for new CapEx to fulfill orders with first firm moving schedules |
| As I mentioned, I think the -- because they are very, very actively to help GDS set up more advantage in Batam and help us to introduce a lot of the renewable energy per year in this region |
| And that's why if you -- we already demonstrated even in a very, very competitive market in China in the last 20 years, we're getting number one position, right? This is a win already -- so we are not thinking about what's our competitor doing, whether they can do everything, but we believe we will win in every market |
| However, as you can see, we were able to mitigate some of the impact of high utility cost with other cost savings |
| For China, our financial objectives are to grow EBITDA at a steady rate, maintain positive cash flow before financing and deleverage -- de-lever the balance sheet |
| I think in the future, they can add more value in terms of bring us to the some SOE customer and also the government's potential demand |
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| International standalone will have negative cash flow before financing of around RMB4 billion this year and potentially a similar amount next year |
| Over the first nine months of 2023, GDS Holdings, excluding International, had negative cash flow before financing of RMB1.8 billion |
| So I think they still need time, but in China still have another issue is supply chain issue in terms of the chips |
| During the past few quarters, our net add has been affected by higher-than-usual churn, which is mainly due to one customer's redeployment |
| For 3Q '23, our adjusted gross profit margin was 49.5% compared with 50.7% in 3Q '22, a decrease of 1.2 percentage points |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin was 44.7% in 3Q '23, which is only slightly down versus the same quarter of last year |
| I think this year, we set expectations that it would decline by 4% year-on-year, which indeed it is doing so |
| Compared with the third quarter of 2022, MSR decreased by 4%, in line with our expectations |
| Market demand in China has not yet picked up noticeably as large customers still have inventory to absorb |
| I think next year, it will decline by less than that |
| And it could set us back in the short term, it can affect our growth rate by a small amount |
| For China over quite a few quarters now, we've made it clear that we're not targeting a high sales volume |
| However, next year, we expect China CapEx to be materially lower at around RMB2.5 billion |
| However, we note that FY '23 revenue is tracking to the bottom end of our original guidance range, while FY '23 adjusted EBITDA is tracking to the top end of the original guidance range |
| So we believe this is -- sell the Batam is not a big issue for us |
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