Digital Realty

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Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
ProductsData centers
RevenueIncrease US$4.69 billion (2022)
Increase US$2.47 billion (2022)
Total assetsIncrease US$153.32 billion (2022)
Total equityIncrease US$9.879 billion (2019)
Number of employees
3,450 (2023)
Websitedigitalrealty.com
Footnotes / references
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Digital Realty data center in Markham, Ontario

Digital Realty is a

data centers across the world. The company offers data center, colocation
and interconnection services.

As of June 2023, Digital Realty has 300+ facilities in 50+ metro areas across 25+ countries on six continents. The company operates in the following regions: the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.[2]


In 2020, Digital Realty joined the

Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030 against a 2018 baseline.[3][4] The company is also a signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, a self-regulatory initiative – drawn up in collaboration with the European Data Center Association (EUDCA) and Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider in Europe (CISPE) – designed to make the industry climate neutral by 2030.[5]

In July 2023, Digital Realty received a

Certificate of Conformity, certifying its adherence to the Self-Regulatory Initiatives (‘SRIs’) set out by the Pact in Europe.[6]

Digital Realty is a leading purchaser of renewable energy in the industry and is making considerable efforts to make the switch to renewable power across its entire portfolio.[7][8] 126 data centers globally are matched with renewable energy, with 100% renewable energy powering its European portfolio and U.S. colocation data centers.[9][10] Digital Realty has 1 GW of wind and solar projects under contract in U.S. states including Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon, Arizona and Virginia.[10][11] Its renewable portfolio resulted in 1.8 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions (MtCO2e) avoided in 2022, which is comparable to the annual electricity needs of 361,800 U.S. homes.[10] The company has also installed 1.8 MW of solar panels at properties in Kenya, Greece, Switzerland, and South Korea.[10][12]

History

The company was formed in 2004 by GI Partners, which contributed 21 data centers that it acquired through bankruptcy auctions and from distressed companies at a 20–40% discount to replacement cost.[13]

On November 4, 2004, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.[14] At that time, the company owned 23 properties comprising 5.6 million square feet.[14]

In August 2006, the company acquired a property in Phoenix, Arizona for $175 million.[15]

By March 2007, GI Partners had sold all of its shares in the company.[13]

In January 2010, the company acquired three data centers in Massachusetts and Connecticut for $375 million.[16]

In January 2012, the company acquired a 334,000 square foot data center near

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for $63 million in a leaseback transaction.[17] The company also acquired a data center in San Francisco for $85 million.[18]

In April 2013, the company acquired the data center of Delta Air Lines in Eagan, Minnesota for $37 million in a leaseback transaction.[19]

In July 2013, the company doubled capacity at its data center in Chandler, Arizona.[20]

In May 2015, the company sold a building in Philadelphia for $161 million that it acquired in 2005 for $59 million.[21]

In October 2015, the company acquired Telx for $1.886 billion.[22]

In November 2015, the company acquired 125.9 acres of undeveloped land in Loudoun County, Virginia for $43 million and announced plans to build a 2 million square foot data center on the property.[23]

In July 2016, the company acquired 8 data centers in Europe from Equinix for $874 million.[24]

In March 2017, the company announced a $22 million expansion of its data center in Atlanta.[25]

In September 2017, the company completed the acquisition of DuPont Fabros Technology.[26][27]

In 2018, the

whistleblower provisions in Dodd-Frank.[28] However the Supreme Court, citing specific language in Dodd-Frank, ruled that these protections only applied to whistleblowers who had first notified the SEC
.

In December 2018, the company acquired Ascenty for $1.8 billion. At the time, Ascenty operated eight data centers in Brazil.[29]

In October 2019, Digital Realty announced the acquisition of European data center provider Interxion for $8.4 billion to “create a leading global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions”.[30][31]

In January 2021, Digital Realty announced that the company's headquarters relocation to Austin, Texas.[32]

In January 2022, the company announced a 55% stake acquisition in Teraco Data Centres [33]

References

  1. ^ "UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549". sec.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  2. ^ "Digital Reality Trust". Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Digital Realty makes gains on data centre sustainability in Singapore with new cooling tower initiative". Intelligent Data Centres. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  4. ^ Panettieri, Joe (2023-07-19). "Digital Realty Data Centers Leverage IBM ESG Software for Carbon Monitoring, Reduction Strategy". Sustainable Tech Partner. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  5. ^ "Signatories – Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact". Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  6. ^ "Digital Realty attains climate-neutral conformity certificate". DataCentreNews UK. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  7. ^ "How Digital Realty is Leveraging PPAs to Lead on Renewables". Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  8. ^ "Digital Realty invests in photovoltaics through power purchase agreement with ENGIE". Intelligent Data Centres. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  9. ^ "Digital Realty reaches 1GW of certified sustainable capacity". datacentremagazine.com. 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  10. ^ a b c d "Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2022" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  11. ^ "Digital Realty wins U.S. efficiency rating and commits to solar". DataCenterNews Asia Pacific. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  12. ^ Swinhoe, Dan (2023-05-26). "Everything data center operators need to know about Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)". Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  13. ^ a b "Digital Realty". GI Partners.
  14. ^ a b "Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Completes Initial Public Offering" (Press release). GI Partners. November 4, 2004.
  15. ^ Miller, Rich (July 27, 2006). "Digital Realty Buys Phoenix Internet Gateway". Data Center Knowledge.
  16. ^ Clark, Ryan (January 5, 2010). "$375M Nets Data Center Portfolio". ALM.
  17. ^ "Digital Realty buys data center near Hartsfield-Jackson". American City Business Journals. January 4, 2012.
  18. ^ Sailors, John (January 4, 2012). "Digital Realty Trust buys S.F. data center for $85M". American City Business Journals.
  19. ^ "Digital Realty Completes Second Sale/Leaseback Transaction With Delta Air Lines For Its Minneapolis Data Center" (Press release). PR Newswire. April 1, 2013.
  20. ^ Ringle, Hayley (July 29, 2013). "Digital Realty Trust doubles capacity at Chandler data center". American City Business Journals.
  21. ^ Kostelni, Natalie (May 6, 2015). "Center City building sells for $161M". American City Business Journals.
  22. ^ "Digital Realty Completes the Acquisition of Telx" (Press release). PR Newswire. October 12, 2015.
  23. ^ Clabaugh, Jeff (November 16, 2015). "Digital Realty plans second massive Loudoun data center". American City Business Journals.
  24. ^ "Digital Realty Completes Acquisition of Eight Premium European Data centers" (Press release). PR Newswire. July 5, 2016.
  25. ^ Karkaria, Urvaksh (March 15, 2017). "Data center operator Digital Realty plans $22 million Atlanta expansion". American City Business Journals.
  26. ^ "Digital Realty Completes Merger With DuPont Fabros" (Press release). PR Newswire. September 14, 2017.
  27. ^ "Digital Realty acquires DuPont Fabros in $7.8B deal". American City Business Journals. September 15, 2017.
  28. ^ Lynch, Sarah N. (June 26, 2017). "U.S. high court to review scope of Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections". Reuters.
  29. ^ "Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty". December 20, 2018.
  30. ^ Patrizio, Andy (2019-11-05). "Digital Realty acquisition of Interxion to reshape data-center landscape". Network World. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  31. ^ "Digital Realty, Interxion to combine in BIGGEST data centre transaction EVER at $8.4bn". Data Economy. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  32. ^ Joshua Bote (January 20, 2021). "In mass tech exodus, yet another firm is leaving the Bay Area for Texas". Hearst Communications. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  33. ^ "Digital Realty acquires 55% stake in Teraco Data Centres". TECH dot AFRICA. 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2022-01-04.

External links

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