VNET Group, Inc. American Depositary Shares

VNET: VNET started as AsiaCloud in 1999 and moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The firm listed (as 21Vianet) on the Nasdaq in April 2011, subsequently changing its name to VNETGroup in 2021. It originally focused on providing data center services such as colocation and cloud services to retail clients in China, but added hyperscale customers in 2019 and now counts large Chinese hyperscalers such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and JD Cloud as customers. At end-December 2022 it had 82,631 self-built cabinets with the majority in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Greater Bay area. It also operated partnered data centers with around 4,679 cabinets and had 431 MW of wholesale capacity contracted or under a memorandum of understanding.