LONDON, March 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, today announced its entry into Bulgaria, establishing a new market presence in Sofia, one of Southeast Europe’s most important emerging interconnection hubs.
Digital Realty’s entry into the market is enabled through the acquisition of Telepoint, a leading local data center and interconnection provider. The transaction includes two data centers in Sofia, including one of the most highly interconnected facilities in Southeast Europe, with more than 110 unique network service providers and multiple cloud on-ramp deployments.
“Sofia is a thriving hub for connectivity in Southeast Europe,” said Paula Cogan, Managing Director EMEA, Digital Realty. “Bringing Bulgaria into our global portfolio allows us to offer customers even more ways to connect, collaborate, and scale their businesses. This expansion strengthens and complements our interconnection platform and helps customers reach end users faster, while tapping into a market that’s growing rapidly and attracting innovation.”
Sofia is a major aggregation point for regional and international connectivity. The city hosts more than 340 network points of presence and close to 200 unique networks1, placing it among the leading Southeast European markets for international internet bandwidth and traffic growth. These characteristics continue to attract new network, cloud, and content deployments serving Southeast Europe.
Sofia plays a central role in the Eastern Mediterranean connectivity corridor and complements Digital Realty’s presence in Athens, Heraklion, and Zagreb. New subsea cable systems landing in Greece optimize traffic flows into Southeast Europe, with Sofia acting as the primary interconnection hub for onward distribution across the region. Increasing volumes of traffic from the Middle East and Asia are routed terrestrially into Sofia, reinforcing the city’s role as one of Europe’s strategic gateways to the Middle east.
As AI adoption accelerates across Europe and the Middle East, Sofia’s strategic position along key terrestrial and subsea routes strengthens its role as a vital hub for AI infrastructure, enabling efficient data movement and supporting cross-border inference workloads.
The acquisition strengthens PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data center platform, bringing a dense, neutral interconnection ecosystem to Southeast Europe and giving customers direct access to one of the region’s most established interconnection communities, with seamless connectivity across Digital Realty’s broader European and Mediterranean footprint.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation, from cloud and digital transformation to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 55+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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