Digital Realty is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, and invests in carrier-neutral data centers across the world. The company offers data center, colocation, and interconnection services. It was formed in 2004 by GI Partners. As of June 2023, Digital Realty has over 300 facilities in more than 25 countries.
The company is a signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, a self-regulatory initiative – drawn up with the European Data Center Association and Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider in Europe – designed to make the industry climate-neutral by 2030.
Digital Realty is working to switch to renewable power. The company has 1 GW of wind and solar projects under contract in Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon, Arizona, and Virginia and has installed 1.8 MW of solar panels in Kenya, Greece, Switzerland, and South Korea. The company says it avoided emitting 1.8 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions in 2022.Wikipedia