SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the leading owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway datacenters, completed a Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) lease agreement with BT Global Financial Services, one of the leading providers of networked IT services to the global financial community. Under this agreement, BT will establish a new datacenter in a Digital Realty Trust property in the New York City metro area to support the company's IT infrastructure.

"We have had the pleasure of working with BT's Global Financial Services division in the past, and it is a great validation that the company has chosen to work with us once again," said Brent Behrman, Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Digital Realty. "By working with our team, companies like BT benefit from our expertise in technology real estate and datacenter development. Our Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) model allows customers to reduce the upfront capital costs for these critical projects while accelerating their time to market."

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust's Turn-Key Datacenters(TM) are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) is built using the company's proprietary POD Architecture(TM) and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) and Powered Base Building(TM) datacenter solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty Trust's 74 properties, excluding one property held as an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter tenants. Comprising approximately 12.9 million rentable square feet as of November 5, 2008, including 1.6 million square feet of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout North America and Europe. For additional information, please visit Digital Realty Trust's website at http://www.digitalrealtytrust.com.

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