Aaron Binkley,
Vice President, Sustainability, will also be stepping into Vice
Chair role for the Nareit Real Estate Sustainability Committee
(RESC) beginning in 2024.
AUSTIN,
Texas, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital
Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and
carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection
solutions, has been awarded the National Association of Real Estate
Investments Trusts (Nareit) "Leader in the Light" award for data
center sustainability for the seventh consecutive year. The award
recognizes Nareit member companies that have demonstrated exemplary
sustainability practices by addressing some of the most pressing
environmental challenges.
"We are honored to receive this award from Nareit for the
seventh consecutive year," said Andy
Power, President and Chief Executive Officer, Digital
Realty. "The climate crisis is one of the critical issues facing
society today, and solving it requires ambitious thinking and
strong action from businesses. As an industry-leader, we have a
responsibility to focus our efforts on supporting the evolving
needs of our global customer base, helping them deliver growth,
while driving sustainable innovation to decarbonize our
industry."
Nareit's "Leader in the Light" award honors Nareit member
companies that have demonstrated superior and sustained
sustainability practices. As part of the process, Nareit
assessed the impact Digital Realty's sustainability program has had
over the last 12 months, with a particular focus on how the
business has scaled or shared its sustainability strategy to create
a broader impact for the industry. Digital Realty was noted as
being committed to minimizing its impact on the environment, and
continuously working alongside its customers, investors, employees
and the communities it operates in to achieve these goals.
Recent examples of Digital Realty's sustainability accolades
include:
- Ranking No. 9 on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) National Top 100 List of the largest green power users from
the Green Power Partnership (GPP) – a voluntary program that
encourages organizations to use green power to reduce the
environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity
use.
- In 2022, remaining ahead of schedule to meet its Scope 1 and 2
emissions reduction targets with a 43% reduction vs baseline
(targeting a 68% reduction by 2030).
- For its 100% renewable electricity goal, it increased the
volume of renewable energy directly sourced by 315 GWh in
2022.
- In 2022, Digital Realty matched 126 data centers with 100%
renewable electricity.
- Achieving five-9's of uptime (99.999% uptime) across its
global portfolio in 2022, the sixteenth consecutive year meeting or
exceeding this level of performance.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings
companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data
center, colocation and interconnection
solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data
center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting
place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture
(PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation
and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty
gives its customers access to the connected data communities that
matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+
facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To
learn more about Digital Realty, please visit
digitalrealty.com or follow us on
LinkedIn and X.
For Additional Information
Media Contacts
Helen Bleasdale
Digital Realty
+1 737 267
6822
hcbleasdale@digitalrealty.com
Investor Relations
Jordan Sadler / Jim Huseby
Digital Realty
+1 737 281
0101
InvestorRelations@digitalrealty.com
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could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially,
including statements related to the Leader in the Light award, our
sustainability program and achievements and our sustainability
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see the reports and other filings by the company with the U.S.
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