Digital Realty and Interxion recently announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine their businesses to create a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions.
The transaction values Interxion at approximately $8.4 billion of total enterprise value, including assumed net debt.
Digital Realty CEO A. William Stein will serve as CEO of the combined company. Interxion CEO David Ruberg will serve as the Chief Executive of the combined company’s Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) business, which will be branded “Interxion, a Digital Realty company” at the close of the transaction. Digital Realty CFO Andrew P. Power will serve as CFO of the combined company.
A. William Stein, CEO, Digital Realty
This strategic and complementary transaction builds upon Digital Realty’s established foundation of serving market demand for colocation, scale and hyperscale requirements in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific and leverages Interxion’s European colocation and interconnection expertise, enhancing the combined company’s capabilities to enable customers to solve for the full spectrum of data center requirements across a global platform.
David Ruberg, CEO, Interxion
As part of Digital Realty, stakeholders will have the opportunity to continue to reap the benefits of the value that we have created via the communities of interest approach in our carrier- and cloud-neutral European data center portfolio.
