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| And the breadth of our infrastructure, which didn't come from just caging cabinet only, but came from hyperscale and diversity of power densities and infrastructure capabilities suits us very well in an environment where quite honestly, the form factors are just getting bigger, bigger and smaller deals |
| And we see able to capture more than our fair share of AI, as well as to cater to numerous other use cases and deliver the greatest value for our customers |
| That growth has been strong for some time and continues to be strong |
| It continues to be lumpy, but it certainly has had a stair step-up in terms of demand as an industry and certainly at Digital, and I think we're well-positioned to capture that |
| 2023 we saw -- we started to see the fruits of the positive pricing dynamics that we're seeing in our overall market |
| And we sit here today now positioned with acceleration in our fundamentals as well as our bottom line, which we believe will continue to keep getting better |
| You've heard supporting about 5,000 customers across the spectrum of capabilities with really incredible pricing power to our platform, multi-market customer expansions and coveted locations that we view irreplaceable |
| And in the core markets for the AI, be it cloud compute, be it enterprise, hybrid IT, we see robust and diverse demand |
| Andy Power I believe we are able to tackle the AI opportunity better than anyone else in this space, public or private, given the breadth of our capabilities and infrastructure here |
| We basically inverted our curve and we were incentivizing shorter-term contracts, so we had better opportunity to capture an uplift in that |
| So with 3 gigawatts of capacity blocks, many of which we can activate pretty expeditiously, I think we're well-positioned and taught strong ROIs, 10 ROIs or better, able to harvest large gains from those type of builds through JV partners |
| These are great customers, parts of our campuses where we can put out capital as great returns |
| We're demonstrating the 10 that's significant merchant gains we're harvesting from that |
| Rapid fire, same-store NOI growth for data centers overall next year in 2025 |
| One, demonstrably strengthening our customer value proposition, which I think folks could see and will likely continue with record 500 new logos to our 5,000 customer base pricing power in our less than a megawatt and greater than megawatt categories, accelerating fundamentals |
| We've been integrating and innovating, launching high power density solutions for our customers, adding to our service fabric and we've been diversifying, bolstering our balance sheet |
| So repurposing space to hire better use, which is a very modest capital investment, if anything, and driving much better returns in addition to a stickier and growing customer base |
| A big part of that outperformance was ultimately where power pricing -- was driven by power pricing largely in our EMEA region where we got close to 200 basis points plus of improvement related to that, plus some benefit from also CPI, which was also much higher in 2023, on the backs of inflation that started to accelerate in 2022 |
| We're wrapping that in a funding model where we're very cognizant of accelerating our bottom line FFO per share growth to mid-single-digit plus type growth |
| And I believe the proximity of the data that sits inside our four walls, not just the on ramps we have, but also the availability zones we have, as well as the hybrid IT we have for our enterprise customers positions us not only from growing our space and power needs, but also connectivity needs |
| Andy Power We said on the earnings call, we said since then, we're teeing up to accelerate the growth to be mid-single-digits plus in 2025, and doing it a framework that's going to continue to generate that for several years to come |
| When it comes to enterprise interconnection rich colocation, we strive to have 100% ownership of those capabilities where we see the greatest pricing power and the greatest long-term organic or same-store growth, with rare exceptions being in markets that have incremental, call it developing market or currency risk |
| Small T-shirts are becoming mediums, mediums are becoming larges, largers becoming extra larges, and our infrastructure is well suited to cater to that |
| But as the pricing power on the cash mark-to-markets, the same-store growth, and we're kind of through this deleveraging change we're going through, I think we're setting up for a sustainable bottom line growth for years to come |
| You can see that our development returns of 400-ish megawatts now 10% ROIs many projects even higher than that to the hundreds of basis points too |
| We outperformed that |
| We're in this business for a long-term growth for our customers and obviously our shareholders |
| Those capacity blocks we have in that market, we were fortunate |
| Open book Build-to-Suit to high credit quality customer, but called high 6%-ish by 11% return on cost |
| Can you unpack the ways in which Digital Realty can benefit from this broadening of GenAI demand directly, and if there may be also some indirect opportunities to benefit in terms of the way customers will now need to deploy their workloads in the future |
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| I think the key highlights are when -- we had -- as I think most of this crowd knows, we had negative same-store growth for the last couple of years, meaning from 2022 and before that |
| This was one of our lowest return development projects in our portfolio |
| Those customers are seeking large contiguous capacity blocks with urgency, and they're doing it at a time where numerous markets are seeing supply constraints due to power, transmission, generation, nimbyism, sustainability concerns, supply chain concerns, supply chain on the component side, supply chain on the transformer side |
| And also the inference may be built on the back of that, again in a backdrop where there's supply constraints |
| But they're the slowest of our herd once created, because the customer credit quality is so strong, the leases are so long, the escalations are the lowest of what we can garner |
| Those things have now, when looking at now transitioning into 2024, those benefits are now -- have become call it a headwind |
| And despite that, it took some time for the market to fully got absorbed |
| Hence, we need to know that we can do too many joint ventures, lose too much NOI too quickly on that path |
| As we've seen both CPI and more importantly power pricing within the region come back to more normalized levels |
| I'm not -- I don’t think I can think of one where things got better |
| And if there's a risk of obsolescence of some of these facilities, as you look out over a multi-year period of time, you talked about some of the opportunities of repurposing reconditioning |
| So in the past you talk about some of the markets, you alluded to it earlier in Northern Virginia, dealing with power constraints from utility companies |
| Can you provide any context of what you're seeing drive that demand? And are there any updates on how you're progressing with that? Andy Power Northern Virginia was a market that got severely disrupted through power transmission issues |
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