What is the current status of the power supply activation for the projects that experienced delays in the second quarter 
 or even 10 years will be the key demand -- a key driver to drive the demand. So, that's why we bring such a big money and we try to catch up -- echo this wave, right?
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. Great.
William Wei Huang -- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
But I will add a little more. As Dan mentioned, 5G is just implemented right now. But we believe after two years, 5G will trigger more IoT stuff, will trigger more a new application and also, will be another potential key driver to drive the data center demand.
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
I mean, what are some of the key applications you think that come out of 5G? What are you seeing right now?
William Wei Huang -- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I think there's a lot of the -- so far, I think it's too early to talk about it. But you will see a lot of the IoT stuff. We talk to a lot of the traditional industry, they all talk about the IoT stuff. And I think the very clear 5G will drive there -- the new application to implement to the all the supply -- all the value chain [Phonetic] -- business value chain, including the manufacturing -- traditional manufacturing and the traditional retail -- traditional industry. So, I think the -- this is not very clear now, but the market is talking about a lot of the development right now.
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
All right. Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of James Wang from UBS. James, your line is now open.
James Wang -- UBS -- Analyst
Good morning, management. Congratulations on a good result. So first question from me is, I remember in the second quarter result, Dan mentioned there were a few locations that experienced some delays in activation of power supply. So I'm just wondering whether these are resolved now. And maybe a broader question on this is, as the number of projects and construction grows, is it getting more difficult to execute with the same level precision as the past and then there may be more slippage in capacity delivery over time?
And then, my second question is about the Huidong project. Just wondering whether -- how supply has already been secured for that project. And also, what sort of customers you have in mind for that location? And also, we hearing, for example, there's potential other building parts of Guangdong, so perhaps a bit more color on the demand and supply situation in that particular region as well? Thank you.
Daniel Newman -- Chief Financial Officer
Okay. Thanks, James. Yeah. The reference I made was actually just to a couple of sites. We can control to a large degree the construction, but the provision of the power infrastructure and the activation of power, depend on supplier and sometimes there's some small delay, but that was fixed, I think, by the end of September. It may happen from time-to-time, but it has actually a few months. A few months matters, particularly when we have delivery schedules for customers. But life can't be perfect, right? So, the degree to which this affects us is pretty small.
Your second comment, though, is very opposite. I think we have the largest data center construction program in the world. I tried to benchmark it against some other very well-known large cap global players. It looks like we have almost double the amount of capacity on under construction. And operationally execution is difficult, there are lots of challenges, lots of complicating factors. I'd like to stress this as you brought it up, because I mean, generally maybe analysts and investors underestimate this when they talk about competition, and people's plans and it's easy to say it, it's not easy to do it. But we've been scaling up for 10 years. We started with three data center projects and we went through 10 years of increments and now we have around 20 projects, more or less permanently under construction. So, I think we've shown that we can handle this efficiently and keep execution issues down to a minimum.
The last question about Huidong, yeah, we bought the 
 or even 10 years will be the key demand -- a key driver to drive the demand. So, that's why we bring such a big money and we try to catch up -- echo this wave, right?
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. Great.
William Wei Huang -- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
But I will add a little more. As Dan mentioned, 5G is just implemented right now. But we believe after two years, 5G will trigger more IoT stuff, will trigger more a new application and also, will be another potential key driver to drive the data center demand.
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
I mean, what are some of the key applications you think that come out of 5G? What are you seeing right now?
William Wei Huang -- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I think there's a lot of the -- so far, I think it's too early to talk about it. But you will see a lot of the IoT stuff. We talk to a lot of the traditional industry, they all talk about the IoT stuff. And I think the very clear 5G will drive there -- the new application to implement to the all the supply -- all the value chain [Phonetic] -- business value chain, including the manufacturing -- traditional manufacturing and the traditional retail -- traditional industry. So, I think the -- this is not very clear now, but the market is talking about a lot of the development right now.
Frank Louthan -- Raymond James -- Analyst
All right. Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of James Wang from UBS. James, your line is now open.
James Wang -- UBS -- Analyst
Good morning, management. Congratulations on a good result. So first question from me is, I remember in the second quarter result, Dan mentioned there were a few locations that experienced some delays in activation of power supply. So I'm just wondering whether these are resolved now. And maybe a broader question on this is, as the number of projects and construction grows, is it getting more difficult to execute with the same level precision as the past and then there may be more slippage in capacity delivery over time?
 And then, my second question is about the Huidong project. Just wondering whether -- how supply has already been secured for that project. And also, what sort of customers you have in mind for that location? And also, we hearing, for example, there's potential other building parts of Guangdong, so perhaps a bit more color on the demand and supply situation in that particular region as well? Thank you.
Daniel Newman -- Chief Financial Officer
Okay. Thanks, James. Yeah. The reference I made was actually just to a couple of sites. We can control to a large degree the construction, but the provision of the power infrastructure and the activation of power, depend on supplier and sometimes there's some small delay, but that was fixed, I think, by the end of September. It may happen from time-to-time, but it has actually a few months. A few months matters, particularly when we have delivery schedules for customers. But life can't be perfect, right? So, the degree to which this affects us is pretty small.
Your second comment, though, is very opposite. I think we have the largest data center construction program in the world. I tried to benchmark it against some other very well-known large cap global players. It looks like we have almost double the amount of capacity on under construction. And operationally execution is difficult, there are lots of challenges, lots of complicating factors. I'd like to stress this as you brought it up, because I mean, generally maybe analysts and investors underestimate this when they talk about competition, and people's plans and it's easy to say it, it's not easy to do it. But we've been scaling up for 10 years. We started with three data center projects and we went through 10 years of increments and now we have around 20 projects, more or less permanently under construction. So, I think we've shown that we can handle this efficiently and keep execution issues down to a minimum.
The last question about Huidong, yeah, we bought the 