Digital Realty Announces Joint Venture With Mivne To Develop New Colocation And Connectivity Hub In Israel And Expand Mediterranean Presence

Market entry advances integrated strategy across Mediterranean, strengthens Digital Realty's market leadership throughout the region

AUSTIN, Texas, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Mivne Real Estate (K.D.) (TASE: MVNE), announced today the formation of a joint venture, entry into the Israeli market, and the planned development of a multi-tenant data center campus in Israel. 

Digital Realty's position as the leading provider of digital infrastructure capacity in the broader Mediterranean region, including presence in Athens, Barcelona and Marseille, will be further enhanced by this new location.  The joint venture, which will operate under the brand name Digital Realty Mivne, will serve as a strategic partnership of Digital Realty with Mivne, a market leading real estate developer, owner and operator that has developed many large-scale projects across Israel and has an extensive land bank. 

Approximately half of the world's population resides within a 3,000-mile radius of the center of the Mediterranean.  Telegeography[1] notes that international bandwidth in the Middle East has seen over 30% compound annual growth since 2016, representing an overall increase in transmission capacity to the region of almost 200%.  Israel is emerging as an alternative cable interconnect route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and the new campus will be located at a key intersection along the global internet highway across the Mediterranean region, connecting Europe to the west and Asia, the Middle East and eastern Africa to the east.  This new route enhances the availability and resilience of international subsea cable systems.  The first subsea cable systems to traverse Israel terrestrially have already been announced and further systems are anticipated.

Israel is also a global center for technology innovation and is regarded as the seventh most innovative country in the world[2], with the highest percentage of GDP spent on research and development and the highest venture capital (VC) investment per capita[3], with over 500 multi-national companies (MNCs) from 35 countries undertaking innovation in Israel.  In addition, the four largest cloud service providers have all announced that they will be building cloud infrastructure in Israel.  All of these macro trends are driving significant demand for digital infrastructure throughout Israel. 

Digital Realty Mivne expects to develop a multi-tenant data center campus in Petah Tikvah, the primary connectivity hub in Israel.  The data center campus will support the development of up to 20 megawatts (MW) of installed IT load.  Delivery of the initial phase is anticipated in 2023, subject to customer demand. 

"Today's collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for Digital Realty's operations, customers and partners in the Middle East.  We expect this partnership to further accelerate our growth while enhancing our ability to support our customers' digital transformation across the globe," said Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein.  "This partnership represents consistent execution towards new market entries.  We are also gratified to partner with Mivne, leveraging its extensive experience as a local investor and operator.  This announcement advances our strategy of developing strategic and highly connected, network dense data centers to strengthen and diversify Digital Realty's portfolio and expand our product mix and global footprint."

David Zvida, Chief Executive Officer of Mivne, added, "Entering the field of data centers is a strategic growth engine for Mivne.  Due to Mivne's large and strategic land bank and its extensive geographical distribution across Israel, the joint venture will be able to develop strategically located, purpose-built data centers.  This strategic partnership with a leading international operator such as Digital Realty, which has proven operating capabilities and extensive relationships with international customers and suppliers, will enable us to gain leadership in the Israeli data center market." 

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About Digital Realty

Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions.  PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.  Digital Realty's global data center footprint gives customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with 290+ facilities in 50 metros across 26 countries on six continents.  For more information, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

About Mivne

Mivne Real Estate (K.D.) Ltd. engages in the initiation, purchase, construction, rental, and management of buildings intended for office, high-tech, industrial, logistics, and commercial needs, and also operates in the field of residential real estate development.  Mivne owns about 1.9 million square meters of income-yielding assets and about 780,000 square meters of land reserves.  The geographical distribution, the number of tenants and their diversity are a valuable advantage which contribute to the Mivne's resilience. 

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Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially, including statements related to the Israeli market, development plans in Israel, our expectations regarding the joint venture's development plans and operations in Israel, the company's strategy and expected growth in digital transformation and customer demand.  For a list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports and filings by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  The company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. 

[1] https://www2.telegeography.com/hubfs/assets/Ebooks/state-of-the-network-2021.pdf

[2] Bloomberg Innovation Index, February 2021

[3] The State of Innovation, PWC Israel, April 2019

SOURCE Digital Realty