Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
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Company History
Founded 2004 in Austin, Texas
Digital Realty was incorporated in Maryland in 2004 and built from a GI Partners-backed portfolio of technology-related real estate. Its public REIT model gave it access to capital for acquisitions and development as data-center demand shifted from enterprise server rooms to outsourced, carrier-neutral infrastructure.
Digital Realty was created from a GI Partners-backed data-center real estate platform and went public in 2004. Its founding model was to own, operate, acquire, and develop technology-related real estate for enterprise and network customers, then use public REIT capital to scale across markets.
Digital Realty is incorporated and becomes a public data-center REIT platform.
Digital Realty expands interconnection and colocation capabilities through the Telx acquisition.
The company expands its hyperscale data-center footprint by acquiring DuPont Fabros.
Digital Realty strengthens its European colocation platform through Interxion.
Andy Power becomes CEO after serving in senior finance and leadership roles.
Digital Realty reports $6.113B revenue, 310 data centers, 57.6M rentable square feet, and 4,282 full-time employees.
To aggressively consolidate the European data center market and execute a radical strategic pivot into the highly regulated European data sovereignty market, capturing the growing demand for physical data localization.
To aggressively consolidate the United States wholesale hyperscale market, acquiring the primary domestic competitor to establish an unparalleled physical footprint and localized monopoly power in Northern Virginia.
Digital Realty traces its origins to a 2004 GI Partners-backed data-center real estate platform.
The Interxion acquisition gave Digital Realty a stronger European interconnection platform.
Digital Realty expanded by building data-center leases, colocation, interconnection, cloud connectivity, hyperscale capacity, and managed infrastructure, serving cloud providers, enterprises, networks, financial firms, AI infrastructure users, and content platforms, and using global capacity, interconnection, hyperscale leasing, power availability, balance-sheet discipline, and AI demand.
This Digital Realty history page covers founding, growth milestones, leadership changes, and modern strategic context.