30 Sep 2026
Digital Realty is developing its first turnkey cable landing station at its Los Angeles data center, aiming to directly integrate subsea cable capacity within its existing interconnection facilities.
Digital Realty
Digital Realty continues its strategic focus on securing scarce, power-ready land and dense interconnection to capitalize on AI-driven growth. The company prioritizes powered-shell capacity due to development constraints and market scarcity, aiming to meet hyperscaler needs for high-density AI compute. This approach is validated by its capital deployment, competitive positioning for AI compute infrastructure, and expansion in key global locations, including new market entries and significant land acquisitions.
The company is also innovating operationally, employing artificial intelligence to optimize data center cooling and overall efficiency. This integration signifies a move towards smarter, more sustainable data center management beyond mere capacity expansion. Digital Realty's commitment to meeting evolving digital infrastructure demands is underscored by its dual focus on strategic land acquisition and advanced operational technologies, ensuring it remains at the forefront of the industry.
Recent developments highlight Digital Realty's proactive global expansion, including the launch of a significant data center in Nairobi, Kenya, addressing captive power needs and operator costs within the nation's growing digital infrastructure. Despite broader discussions about potential AI slowdowns, the data center industry, including Digital Realty, anticipates continued expansion, unaffected by these calls. The company's strategic land acquisition and operational AI integration demonstrate a forward-looking approach to sustained growth.
Last updated September 20, 2026
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23 Sep 2026
A new subsea gateway is being developed to establish crucial digital infrastructure connectivity between the Asia Pacific and North America regions.
16 Sep 2026
Despite calls for an artificial intelligence development pause, the data center industry anticipates continued expansion, unaffected by potential AI model slowdowns.
16 Sep 2026
Digital Realty launched its NBO2 data center in Nairobi, Kenya, highlighting the growth of captive power as the fastest-growing energy source amidst grid challenges.
11 Sep 2026
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27 Aug 2026
Industry leaders like Digital Realty, AWS, DPR Construction, and Schneider Electric are implementing artificial intelligence to enhance data center efficiency and operational intelligence.
21 Aug 2026
Digital Realty's bid for Hawthorne Race Course faces opposition due to potential data center development plans on the 108-acre site.
31 Jul 2026
Digital Realty plans a significant campus development in Kansas City, positioning the city as a top-tier U.S. data center market poised for substantial growth.
24 Jul 2026
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19 Jul 2026
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7 Jul 2026
Blackstone sold stabilized data center capacity back to its operator, driven by powered-shell scarcity, joint venture exits, and capital recycling challenges amid Northern Virginia's grid and permitting constraints.
6 Jul 2026
Digital Realty acquired 288 MW of hyperscale capacity in Northern Virginia from Blackstone for $3.5 billion, consolidating the joint venture's infrastructure under full ownership.
5 Jul 2026
Capital, power, and policy shifts are actively reshaping global AI infrastructure, with major customers now influencing the supply side.
30 Jun 2026
Digital Realty has acquired a stake in three Virginia data centers from Blackstone for $3.5 billion.
30 Jun 2026
Digital Realty acquired Blackstone's data center stakes for $3.5 billion, aiming to expand its footprint amid AI demand while potentially indicating Blackstone's strategic shift.
30 Jun 2026
Digital Realty has acquired Blackstone's stake in three Virginia data centers for $3.5 billion, gaining full ownership of 288MW of capacity leased to three clients.
28 May 2026
Mistral AI is planning to deploy its artificial intelligence operations within a Digital Realty data center located in Paris, France, to expand its compute capacity.
24 Apr 2026
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5 Apr 2026
OpenAI's $122 billion funding surge, combined with a 500MW+ buildout in the Nordics and a hyperscale push in Southeast Asia, signals major capital, power, and geopolitical shifts transforming global AI infrastructure.
31 Mar 2026
Digital Realty has successfully closed its inaugural hyperscale data center fund, raising $3.25 billion designated for investments in major United States metropolitan areas, including Virginia, California, and Texas.
30 Mar 2026
Digital Realty has finalized a $3.25 billion data center fund, signaling an increased reliance on private capital sources for its strategy.
8 Mar 2026
The global AI infrastructure landscape is being shaped by significant capital, power, and geopolitical shifts, with CoreWeave targeting a massive AI platform, Amazon expanding its presence in Spain, and ByteDance securing substantial capacity for AI compute.
16 Feb 2026
Data center Real Estate Investment Trusts like Equinix and Digital Realty are indicating that the artificial intelligence boom is reaching a critical inflection point.
27 Jan 2026
Digital Realty's market entry into Malaysia suggests a shift in data center investment strategy, prioritizing interconnection node-centric deployment over immediate massive scale.
25 Jan 2026
Global artificial intelligence infrastructure developments include India commencing a $25 billion green gigacampus, Microsoft densifying its footprint in the United States, and Google establishing a major presence in Thailand.
20 Jan 2026
In the second half of 2025, the Asia-Pacific region solidified its position as the global epicenter for artificial intelligence data centers, driven by the convergence of power constraints, complex capital structures, and proactive sovereign policy decisions.
14 Jan 2026
The Middle East and Africa region successfully translated artificial intelligence infrastructure ambitions into tangible execution during the second half of 2025, driven by strategic alignments of power availability, governmental policy, and sovereign capital.
8 Jan 2026
Capital flows, energy limitations, and fundamental structural changes are redefining the scale of artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure across North America, currently estimated at a six hundred billion dollar corridor buildout.
1 Dec 2025
Digital Realty has inaugurated its AMS11 facility, further solidifying the Netherlands' established position as a primary hub for data center activity within the broader European market.
1 Dec 2025
The evaluation of Digital Connexions' $11 billion investment in an artificial intelligence-native campus suggests this large-scale development could firmly establish India as the next major global compute hub.
30 Nov 2025
The industry is entering a new phase characterized by massive leveraged buildouts, where state-backed initiatives, such as India's 2GW AI corridor, combine with hyperscaler debt cycles and OpenAI's significant infrastructure funding gap to reshape APAC compute.
28 Nov 2025
Digital Realty and a consortium that includes Equinix are reportedly competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian data center operator, due to the attractiveness of its climate-controlled facilities amid high demand driven by AI workloads.
18 Nov 2025
Digital Realty's robust Q3 performance, marked by high revenue and backlog figures, validates its strategy of monetizing scarce, power-ready assets and capitalizing on high-margin interconnection services while preparing for future AI campus deliveries.
18 Nov 2025
The third-quarter financial results from Equinix and Digital Realty provided definitive evidence that control over power-ready land and dense interconnection capabilities, rather than capital expenditure totals, now determines leadership in the artificial intelligence infrastructure sector.