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                              June 27, 2023

       William Wei Huang
       Chief Executive Officer
       GDS Holdings Ltd
       F4/F5, Building C, Sunland International
       No. 999 Zhouhai Road
       Pudong, Shanghai 200137

                                                        Re: GDS Holdings Ltd
                                                            Form 20-F for the
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022
                                                            Filed April 4, 2023
                                                            File No. 001-37925

       Dear William Wei Huang:

              We have reviewed your May 25, 2023 response to our comment letter
and have the
       following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide
us with information
       so we may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

             After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have
additional
       comments. Unless noted otherwise, our references to prior comments are
to comments in our
       May 11, 2023 letter.

       Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022

       Conventions That Apply to This Annual Report on Form 20-F, page 1

   1.                                                   Please revise here in
future filings to define the terms "contracting customer" and "end
                                                        user customer" (or
"customer") as indicated in your response to prior comment 7.
       Item 3.D Risk Factors
       Our net revenue is highly dependent on a limited number of customers...,
page 28

   2.                                                   We note your response
to prior comment 7. Please tell us how you considered
                                                        whether the loss of any
significant contracting customers may impact your financial
                                                        condition and results
of operations. Explain why you have not addressed the
                                                        concentration of
revenue from such customers in your risk factors or revise as necessary.
 William Wei Huang
GDS Holdings Ltd
June 27, 2023
Page 2
Item 16I. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections,
page 223

3.       As noted in your response to prior comment 6, Item 16I(b) of Form 20-F
states:    Also,
         any such identified foreign issuer that uses a variable-interest
entity or any similar
         structure [emphasis added] that results in additional foreign entities
being consolidated in
         the financial statements of the registrant is required to provide the
below disclosures for
         itself and its consolidated foreign operating entity or entities.
Additionally, page 15 of
         our Release No. 34-93701,    Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act
Disclosure,
         clarifies that a registrant should    look through a VIE or any
structure [emphasis added]
         that results in additional foreign entities being consolidated in the
financial statements of
         the registrant and provide the required disclosures about any
consolidated operating
         company or companies in the relevant jurisdiction.    As previously
requested, please
         provide us with the information required by Items 16I(b)(2) through
(b)(5) for all of your
         consolidated foreign operating entities in your supplemental response.
Item 18. Financial Statements
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 25. Major Customers and Suppliers, page F-59

4.       You refer to two customers on page 28 that generated 25.1% and 19.9%
of total net
         revenue, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2022. Please
tell us how such
         customers are reflected in Note 25. In this regard, provide us with a
breakdown of
         revenue from the two significant end-user customers and clarify how it
is reflected within
         each contracting customer listed in Note 25. Also, in your response,
provide us with the
         names of the two end-user customers referenced in your risk factor
discussion and the
         names of the four contracting customers disclosed here. Lastly, please
revise to include a
         separate quantified discussion regarding the revenues generated from
the two significant
         end-user customers. We refer you to ASC 275-10-50-18.
       Please contact Jennifer Thompson at (202) 551-3737 if you have any
questions about
comments related to your status as a Commission-Identified Issuer during your
most recently
completed fiscal year. You may contact Megan Akst, Senior Staff Accountant, at
(202) 551-3407
or Kathleen Collins, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3499 with any other
questions.



FirstName LastNameWilliam Wei Huang                             Sincerely,
Comapany NameGDS Holdings Ltd
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