DIGITAL REALTY INTERVIEW SCRIPT
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Digital is a publicly
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traded real estate company.
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We have now 8th largest real
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estate company in the country
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on a market cap perspective,
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we have 3.3 million square feet
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of data center capacity here that
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roughly probably generates too.
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I would say over 300 megs of
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power the Franklin Park site
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that we're building with Comed.
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It's a it's a 32 MW facility.
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It's 450,000 square feet locally.
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The investments that we've made,
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especially in Franklin Park.
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Obviously,
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a bit of capacity here.
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Our goal is to always put in place
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the most energy efficient product
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and mechanical systems and electrical
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systems that are out there.
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At our scale in the data center industry,
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so we've made significant
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investments from that perspective.
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As far as improvements in infrastructure,
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I mean the largest is the substation that
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we're currently working on with Comed to
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support the growth of our customers here
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in Franklin Park in the Chicago area.
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That's an ongoing project that I think we see
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a finish line here coming up pretty quickly.
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And but it's a pretty significant investment.
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Want to say well over $25 million or so,
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and it's been going.
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It's been going well.
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Our energy management goals are really
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focused around the reliability of the
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utility provider and the source of power.
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Renewable energies are a big piece of our
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our goal and making sure that there's
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enough of a green energy mix of fuel
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energy mix that that works for us and for
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our customers and also the flexibility
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and the ability to expand capacity.
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The project is is adding reliability to
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the overall well system in the area,
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specifically to our campus.
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Our customers are now on high alert.
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Our systems work to make
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sure that there is no.
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Dropped in power ultimately to the customers.
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12 years we've maintained 5 nines or 99.99%
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reliability and uptime in our data centers,
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and that's been through a combination
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of not only the infrastructure that
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we incorporate into our design.
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To maintain, maintain the redundancy,
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but also partner with the right
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utility companies that have robust and
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infrastructure that can support that one
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of the major benefits of this substation
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coming online is that will benefit
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from a lower utility rate because we're.
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We were getting power at A at a
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higher transmission level versus
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at the retail level transmission.
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He said it's probably the most one
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of the most critical portions of our
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business in our in our projects and
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our development because what we're also
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seeing is our customers increasing
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their density of the power that
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they need within their data centers.
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So when they five years ago or
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four years ago only needed one MW
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with 10,000 square feet.
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Now they may need likely need two
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megawatts within 10,000 square feet,
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almost doubling the amount of
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power within the same footprint.
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So having the ability to increase
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that transmission capacity down
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down the road is vital,
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because technology continues to
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advance server power continues to
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be more more dense effectively,
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and there's just more power being
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generated by 1 server and they continue
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to get smaller but generate more power.
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Which means upgrades that we need
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from a transmission line perspective
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fairly quickly to accommodate that
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future growth and from a cooling
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perspective you know,
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being able to be adaptable and
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growing to accommodate those needs.
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It's not just the reliability and
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being able to turn the lights on,
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it's it's the sustainability it is
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making sure that our systems downstream
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of the utility power are also as
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energy efficient as possible so that
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we are utilizing the power that we're
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bringing in the most effective effect
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cost effective and efficient way.
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