{"id":1004131982,"date":"2015-11-18T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004131982"},"modified":"2020-04-28T01:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:06:54","slug":"digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Realty Replicates in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004131983\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004131983\" data-attachment-id=\"1004131983\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/a-william-stein-digital-realty\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A. William Stein Digital Realty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A. William Stein, CEO, Digital Realty Trust Inc.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg?w=500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004131983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\" alt=\"A. William Stein, CEO, Digital Realty Trust Inc.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004131983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. William Stein, CEO, Digital Realty Trust Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalrealty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Digital Realty Trust Inc<\/a>. has laid the groundwork to expand its presence in Northern Virginia, the top data center market in the country. The data center solutions provider just completed the $43 million acquisition of a 125.9-acre site primed for development in\u00a0Loudoun County, Va., thereby paving the way for a new 2 million-square-foot facility and the build-out of approximately 150 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>The new data center will certainly tick all the boxes in the location category, with a site in close proximity to one of Loudoun County\u2019s main fiber trunk runs, a new sub-station and Dominion Virginia Power transmission lines. Additionally, the five-building project will sit within a mile\u2019s reach of Digital Realty\u2019s existing data center campus in Ashburn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that we are projected to approach full capacity at our existing Digital Ashburn data center campus, this land acquisition will enable us to continue to support our customers&#8217; growth with no downtime,\u201d A. William Stein, Digital Realty CEO, said in\u00a0a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company expects to commence construction of the new center in 2016 as demand dictates,\u00a0and demand in the area is strong. According to a report by commercial real estate services firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us.jll.com\/united-states\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JLL<\/a>, Northern Virginia led the country\u2019s data center market in 2014, with total demand accounting for a market share of approximately 25 percent. There\u2019s been more of the same in 2015, and JLL expects Northern Virginia\u2019s position at the top to hold into 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Realty Trust\u2019s Northern Virginia portfolio presently consists of roughly 1.7 million square feet, so its new location will mark quite an increase in its footprint in the area. However, the company\u2019s growth plans extend way beyond Northern Virginia. As stated during its third quarter earnings call in October, Digital Realty plans to expand existing campuses, expand in existing markets and grow opportunistically in new markets, all subject to the caveat that prospective investments must be accretive to company shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion of the company in Northern Virginia confirms the emergence of the area as the country&#8217;s top data center market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":1004131983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21781,21755,21742,21786,21787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004131982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-real-estate","category-data-centers","category-latest","category-sustainability","category-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Digital Realty Replicates in Virginia - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Digital Realty Replicates in Virginia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The expansion of the company in Northern Virginia confirms the emergence of the area as the country&#039;s top data center market.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-18T17:58:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-28T09:06:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barbra Murray\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/\",\"name\":\"Digital Realty Replicates in Virginia - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-18T17:58:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-28T09:06:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d1edda962dd3af55af8a203870f9fc32\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-replicates-in-virginia\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/11\/A.-William-Stein-Digital-Realty.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":333,\"caption\":\"A. 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