Rackspace Hosting Australia Selects Digital Realty For Its First Data Center In Sydney, Australia

Digital Realty Trust

, announced today that it has signed a new 480 kW Turn-Key FlexSM lease with Rackspace Hosting Australia Pty Limited, at its site in Sydney, Australia. The lease was signed in the second quarter of 2012. "We are very pleased to be partnering with Rackspace on the launch of its first data center in Australia," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer for Digital Realty. "We have made a long term commitment to serve local and global customers looking for high quality, cost effective data center solutions in this important, dynamic market. Along with our lease with National Australia Bank at our site in Melbourne, we believe this agreement represents our position as a provider of choice for the Australian market." Located in Erskine Park, Digital Realty's first 5.76 MW data center facility is scheduled to open in November 2012. The site is capable of supporting approximately 18,600 square meters of data center development with over 11.5MW of IT capacity. Digital Realty also purchased a development site at Deer Park in the Western Melbourne Region where the first of two planned facilities is scheduled for completion in early 2013.