Digital Realty Earns Nareit's Data Center Sustainability Award
Winner for third consecutive year
SAN FRANCISCO — Digital Realty earned the National Association of Real Estate Investments Trusts (Nareit’s) "Leader in the Light" award for data center sustainability for the third consecutive year. The award, presented at the annual REITworld conference in Los Angeles, honors Nareit member companies that have produced superior, measurable results from the implementation of sustainable business practices.
In 2018, Digital Realty added 104 MW of renewable energy contracts across its U.S. portfolio, bringing the total executed under long-term contracts to 288 MW of renewable energy. Last year, the company's renewable energy efforts resulted in 533,900 metric tons of avoided carbon emissions, the equivalent of taking 113,000 cars off the road each year or the electricity needs of more than 93,000 homes per year. In 2019, the company announced an additional 50 MW of renewables to support its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, and signed a green tariff agreement with Portland General Electric (PGE), which will supply approximately 120,000 megawatt-hours annually to Digital Realty's data center development project in Hillsboro, Oregon.