Digital Realty Trust Announces New Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) Lease Agreement With IBM in Paris

"IBM understands the value of green datacentre design both in terms of the impact on the bottom line and its importance for corporate responsibility. It is great to work with a company such as Digital Realty Trust that is taking such a forward-looking approach to energy efficient datacentre design," commented Francois Domine, Directeur IBM Business Continuity & Security Services IBM Global Technology Services -- FranceNorthwest Africa.

"We are very pleased to establish our relationship with IBM inFrance with this new Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) agreement," said Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President,Europe of Digital Realty Trust. "In terms of speed to market, with our Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) product based on our POD Architecture(TM) we are able to meet the datacentre requirements of customers such as IBM in six to eight weeks from the time we come to an agreement -- well ahead of current industry standards."

This new datacentre is an example of Digital Realty Trust's industry leadership in advancing the energy efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of datacentre facilities. This new Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) will be the first release of the new POD Architecture(TM) design inParis. POD Architecture(TM) design configuration and construction methodology developed by Digital Realty Trust promotes the energy efficiency needed for green datacentre operation.

"Even in today's challenging economic climate, theParis market is seeing constant and steady demand. The price of power inFrance combined with our energy efficient design makes ourParis facility a preferred infrastructure solution for many large customers and system integrators," added Geoghegan.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacentre(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 optimising energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust's Turn-Key Datacentres(TM) are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughoutEurope andNorth America. Each Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacentre(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 Datacentre(TM) and Powered Base Building(TM) datacentre 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 and corporate enterprise datacenter tenants. Comprising approximately 12.9 million rentable square feet as of August 6, 2008, including 1.9 million square feet of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughoutEurope andNorth America. For additional information, please visit Digital Realty Trust's website at http://www.digitalrealtytrust.com.

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     Chief Financial Officer and
     Chief Investment Officer
     Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
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     Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
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SOURCE Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

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