Digital Realty develops and operates a global cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform for colocation, interconnection, hyperscale deployments and enterprise data infrastructure. Company updates commonly cover PlatformDIGITAL, Pervasive Datacenter Architecture, data-center capacity, customer connectivity, operating workforce development and the infrastructure needs tied to cloud, AI and data-intensive applications.
Recurring news themes also include financial results, capital-structure activity, private-capital funding for hyperscale data centers, strategic fund management, and geographic expansion across major data-center markets. Recent company announcements have addressed U.S. hyperscale data center funding and new or expanded market presence in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region.
Digital Realty (DLR) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.9 billion and raised its full-year outlook for core funds from operations.
Revenue rose 21% year over year. Diluted earnings were $0.48 per share, versus $0.15 a year earlier and $1.21 in the previous quarter. Core funds from operations, excluding net promote income, were $2.10 per share, versus $1.89 and $2.13, respectively. Signed bookings at Digital Realty’s share are expected to generate $627 million of annualized rent; its signed-but-not-commenced backlog reached $1.8 billion. New leases had a weighted-average commencement lag of 17 months.
The company raised 2026 core funds from operations guidance, excluding net promote, to $8.30–$8.35 per share, but lowered diluted earnings guidance to $2.90–$2.95. It acquired $742 million of land during the quarter and subsequently increased its Teraco ownership to approximately 77%.
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) announced that its finance subsidiary, Digital Euro Finco, priced €1 billion of guaranteed notes due 2036. The notes were priced at 99.289% of principal and carry annual interest of 5.125%, payable in arrears from October 9, 2026. They mature on October 9, 2036. Closing is expected on October 9, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
The notes will be senior unsecured obligations, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Digital Realty and its operating partnership. The company intends to allocate an amount equal to net proceeds to finance or refinance new or existing projects consistent with its Green Bond Framework, including development and redevelopment.
Digital Realty (DLR) closed a CHF510 million Swiss bond offering through Digital Constellation, an indirect wholly-owned finance subsidiary of its operating partnership.
The offering comprises CHF225 million at 1.6803% maturing October 8, 2029, CHF185 million at 2.0600% maturing October 6, 2032, and CHF100 million at 2.4150% maturing October 6, 2036. Interest is payable annually in arrears. The bonds are senior unsecured obligations, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Digital Realty, its operating partnership and Digital Intrepid Holding.
The company intends to allocate an amount equal to net proceeds to finance or refinance new or existing projects consistent with its Green Bond Framework, including development and redevelopment.
Digital Realty (DLR) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market closes on October 29, 2026. The company will discuss the results on a conference call that day at 5:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. CT. A live webcast will be available on its investor website, with a replay available shortly afterward and archived until October 29, 2027.
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) announced that Blackfuel selected its BCN1 data center in Barcelona to deploy and scale an AI inference platform.
The multi-megawatt deployment combines dedicated AI capacity with liquid-cooled Dell Technologies infrastructure and AMD GPUs. Blackfuel's platform integrates with ServiceFabric, Digital Realty's private interconnection platform, to deliver AI inference—running trained models—near enterprise data and applications. ServiceFabric extends across more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers worldwide. Digital Realty said the connectivity can help Blackfuel scale services beyond Barcelona and reduce response times compared with public internet access.
Digital Realty (DLR) plans to develop a new cable landing station (CLS) at its LAX12 data center in Los Angeles in partnership with Assured Communications.
The CLS is designed to offer subsea cable operators a turnkey facility for landing and powering systems, with direct interconnection to terrestrial networks and the broader connectivity ecosystem across Digital Realty’s Los Angeles campus. By integrating subsea landing infrastructure with colocation and interconnection services, the project aims to enhance routes between Asia Pacific and North America. The CLS is in development and is expected to begin supporting cables in 2028.
AXG and Digital Realty (DLR) have formed a partnership to let global system integrators and managed service providers offer fully hosted, lifecycle-managed private infrastructure as a service across more than 30 countries.
The joint model combines Digital Realty’s PlatformDigital® and ServiceFabric® with AXG’s multi-technology infrastructure-as-a-service to deliver dedicated private AI, private cloud, edge, cloud repatriation, and neo-cloud capacity, available today in 31 markets across NA, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
Digital Realty (DLR) released its 2026 Global Data Insights Survey, showing a sharp shift from AI strategy to execution as infrastructure becomes the main barrier. The share of IT decision-makers citing lack of specialized infrastructure as the primary constraint on AI initiatives rose to 40% in 2026 from 9% in 2024.
Respondents expect AI spending to increase by 32% over the next year and 79% expect to deploy AI initiatives in 2026. Only 3% report no measurable AI ROI so far, while 63% expect returns within six months to two years. Some 98% expect to be running real-time AI applications within 12 months, 88% have adopted a distributed data strategy, and 92% now link data location decisions to AI plans. In addition, 86% pursue sovereign AI initiatives and more than half host AI workloads in private clouds.
Digital Realty (DLR) launched ServiceFabric® Model Context Protocol (MCP), an AI-native programmable control layer now available across its global interconnection platform and more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers.
ServiceFabric MCP, built on the AI Private Exchange (AIPx) architecture, provides standardized, agent-ready interfaces that let AI systems interact with infrastructure, applications, and services. It delivers four capability areas: intent-based design and provisioning, real-time discovery and telemetry, identity and security with OAuth 2-based access control, and operations integration with tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, and Datadog. Designed to be open and model-agnostic, it supports Private AI deployments spanning public clouds, networks, bare metal, and colocation environments while keeping connectivity private at Layer 2 and Layer 3.
Digital Realty (DLR) formed a strategic joint venture with Rönesans Infrastructure to develop and operate next-generation, carrier-neutral data centers across Türkiye.
The partnership extends Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® into the Turkish market, targeting rising demand for cloud, AI, connectivity and enterprise digital infrastructure in a country positioned at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The JV’s first project is a state-of-the-art data center campus in Ankara, designed to support more than 22 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity, with land, power and permitting already secured and initial construction under way. The first facility is scheduled for completion in 2028 and is intended to become one of Türkiye’s leading digital infrastructure hubs. The partners also plan an additional facility in Istanbul to build a highly connected, resilient platform serving domestic and international customers.