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Facility-level telemetry including power capacity, hardware deployments, supplier relationships, and downstream dependencies. Linked to GDS Holdings Limited with cross-referenced BIS Entity List matches.
Detailed intelligence on GDS LF-8 Langfang. Operational capacity and ownership structure are mapped to determine the facility's strategic position within the global AI supply chain (including its exposure to relevant export control restrictions).
As of 2026-05-16
Direct operator or owner of this facility per the Scrutica facility record.
Description
LF-8, Langfang Hebei (Beijing Tier-1 satellite market). Per Q4 2024 results press release, Langfang was a primary contributor to Q4 2024 net additional area in service ("In the fourth quarter of 2024, net additional area in service for China was 17,977 sqm, mainly from data centers in Changshu, Langfang and Huizhou").
Notes
GDS-operated. Langfang as a 2024 expansion market anchored to Q4 2024 press release (tier 1). Specific facility code LF-8 from GDS corporate locations listing.
Other GDS Holdings Limited Facilities
Parent / controlling entity, documented through a public filing or LEI registry.
Source: cn-founder-vehicle-supplement-2026-05-20 · Confidence HIGH
Chain terminates at a publicly-listed entity (GDS Enterprises Limited). Subsequent ownership is observable via SEC filings or the equivalent national registry.
China (CN)
Not a Wassenaar participant; operates its own Export Control Law (2020) and Unreliable Entity List; MOFCOM and the Ministry of Commerce administer dual-use catalogues.
Regimes: Chinese Export Control Law (2020); MOFCOM Unreliable Entity List authority
Established via: GDS Holdings Limited
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-05-16. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in the available data for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from PitchBook deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); PitchBook coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
No documented sovereign or state-linked LP investment touches any entity in this chain. PitchBook LP-disclosure rate is partial; absence of evidence here is not evidence of absence.
The walk for GDS LF-8 Langfangstarts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph, normalized to trace child-to-parent relationships. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > FactSet Workstation / Revere > Compustat > BIS / Federal Register > PitchBook). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (PitchBook): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after PitchBook's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and the underlying data compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the ingested sources but are not surfaced on this card. And some PitchBook edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-05-16. Walk depth observed: 2 hops. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + PitchBook affiliate graph + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) FactSet Revere supply-chain graph + Federal Register designation closures.
GDS CD-1 Chengdu
Chengdu, China
Other Facilities in China