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Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Announces 17 Meet Me Room Customers

February 22, 2005
Customers Choose Digital Realty Meet Me Rooms Because of State-of-the-Art
                 Facilities and Outstanding Customer Service

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), an owner and manager of technology-related properties, today announced 17 new and expanding customers at its nationwide portfolio of state-of-the-art Meet Me Rooms. Meet Me Rooms are facilities that allow telecom carriers and network service providers to cost-effectively cross connect their networks to support the buying, selling and sharing of bandwidth. Digital Realty offers telecommunications carriers and network ISPs advanced Meet Me Room facilities through its portfolio of Internet Gateway Facilities, providing customers connectivity to other carriers and colocation customers with no cross connection fees.

Digital Realty Trust owns a portfolio of technology real estate properties that features Internet Gateways in key metropolitan areas across the U.S. and in the U.K. Digital Realty Trust's properties meet the real estate needs of high-growth segments of the technology industry, providing the infrastructure to support disaster recovery and business continuity, electronic commerce and the security of stored or transmitted electronic data.

"Digital Realty has a unique, carrier-friendly approach to working with customers in our Meet Me Rooms, making us the clear choice for so many customers," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty Trust. "Carriers and ISPs often have trouble finding a Meet Me Room partner that truly understands their needs, but Digital Realty provides Meet Me Room customers with the technology and support to meet their very specific technical needs and business goals. These 17 new customer deals are a tremendous validation of our approach to partnering with tenants, and it is also an affirmation of Digital Realty's status as the premier provider of Meet Me Room services in the industry."

Customers that have recently signed agreements to become tenants or expand their presence in Digital Realty Meet Me Rooms in San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles and Santa Clara include:

     *  AT&T

     *  Backbone Communications
     *  City College of San Francisco
     *  City of San Francisco
     *  Cyberverse
     *  ILD Telecommunications
     *  LightCore/CenturyTel
     *  Looking Glass
     *  Micropathways
     *  OnFiber Communications
     *  Qwest
     *  Savvis
     *  Speakeasy
     *  Sprint
     *  Verizon

     *  Wiltel Communications

     *  WV Fiber

For more information about Digital Realty Trust's Meet Me Room facilities, please contact Chris Crosby at 214-880-0450 or ccrosby@digitalrealtytrust.com. And for more information about Digital Realty Trust, visit www.digitalrealtytrust.com.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. , traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "DLR," owns, acquires, repositions and manages technology-related real estate. The Company's 24 properties contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants. Comprising approximately 5.6 million net rentable square feet, Digital Realty's property portfolio is located throughout the United States, with one property located in London, England.

SOURCE  Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

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    /CONTACT:  Rich Miller of Miller Strategic Communications (PR),
+1-415-462-5633, rich@millerstrategic.com, for Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
; or
Chris Crosby of Digital Realty Trust, +1-214-880-0450,
ccrosby@digitalrealtytrust.com/
    /Web site:  http://www.digitalrealtytrust.com /
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