Good afternoon, and welcome to Digital Realty's Q4 2023 earnings call. Please note, this event is being recorded. During today's presentation, all parties will be placed in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Callers will be limited to one question, and we will aim to conclude the call at the bottom of the hour. I would now like to turn the call over to Jordan Sadler, Digital Realty's Senior Vice President of Public and Private Investor Relations. Jordan, please go ahead. Thank you, operator, and welcome everyone to Digital Realty's Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call. Joining me on today's call are President and CEO, Andy Power, and CFO, Matt Mercier. Chief Investment Officer, Greg Wright, Chief Technology Officer, Chris Sharp, and Chief Revenue Officer, Colin McLean, are also on the call and will be available for Q&A. Management will be making forward-looking statements, including guidance and underlying assumptions on today's call. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For a further discussion of risks related to our business, see our 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC. This call will also contain non-GAAP financial information. Reconciliations to net income are included in the supplemental package furnished to the SEC and available on our website. Before I turn the call over to Andy, let me offer a few key takeaways from our Q4 and our full year. First, we are seeing a robust wave of demand across our platform, and we are optimistic about our ability to execute. Leasing in the quarter was healthy, highlighted by strong volume in the 0-1 Megawatt plus interconnection segment, record pricing in the greater than 1 Megawatt category, and the second highest quarter ever of new logos added. Second, our fundamental metrics capped off the year on a high note, with the strongest cash re-leasing spreads and same-store same-capital cash NOI growth we've seen in years, as our unique and differentiated value proposition continued to resonate. Lastly, in the Q4 alone, we announced nearly $8 billion of new development joint ventures and completed over $1 billion of equity issuance under our ATM, bringing total capital sources raised during the year to more than $12 billion and reducing pro forma leverage below our year-end 2023 target. The execution on our funding and capital plan in 2023 has positioned Digital Realty to be able to support our customers' data center infrastructure needs as the next generation of technology unfolds. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our President and CEO, Andy Power. Thanks, Jordan, and thanks to everyone for joining our call. 2023 was a milestone year for Digital Realty, as we made strong progress toward our strategic objectives, despite significant volatility in financial conditions and broader uncertainty around the world. For me, 2023 will be remembered as the year of AI's arrival to the data center forefront, ushering in an unprecedented new wave of data center demand, driving a step function of change across the industry's landscape. The year that Digital Realty enhanced its customer value proposition by adding connectivity-rich solutions, while also scaling our capacity for hyperscale and AI workloads. We expanded our footprint with new connectivity-oriented locations around the Mediterranean and elsewhere, enhanced our joint venture in India with the addition of Reliance Jio, and increased the number of direct access points on our campuses to the leading cloud and service providers. We accelerated the growth of Service Fabric with more than 70 discrete services added to the platform and over 100 unique services available by year-end, and enhanced its capabilities with new components like Service Directory. We also added 9,000 new Cross-Connects in the year, indicative of our growing connected data communities. 2023 was a year that we integrated and innovated at a faster pace than ever before. We strengthened our leadership team and aligned our platforms to three regions to be consistently structured around the world. We adapted our product portfolio to meet market demand, evolving our offering to officially support next-generation chips like the NVIDIA H100 in numerous data centers. Our high-density colo capability, deployed across 32 markets, spanning all three regions, is equipped to handle three times the H100 requirements. And we continue to add green energy solutions to power many of these power-dense applications, like our large solar PPA in Germany and our agreement supporting 100% renewable power in Texas, San Francisco, New Jersey, and Sydney. And 2023 was the year that Digital Realty took decisive action to strengthen our balance sheet by developing a portfolio of private capital partnerships and vehicles that diversified our capital sources while enabling us to support our customers' fast-growing requirements. And we did all of that while continuing to provide the operational excellence that is expected of a global data center leader and that our customers rightfully demand. On this call a year ago, I outlined a plan to bolster and diversify our capital sources. Our goals were to reduce our leverage towards 6 times by the end of the year, increase our liquidity to fund our development program, and diversify our capital sources to limit our reliance on the capital markets, increasing our ability to meet the accelerating demand for data center capacity and to enhance our returns on invested capital. We outperformed on each of these goals, sourcing over $12 billion of new capital and commitments for new investment and debt repayment, reducing pro forma leverage to just 5.8 times when adjusted for transactions that have been announced or closed since year-end. We also ended the year with 5 new JV partners and expanded some of our existing relationships. To round out the year, we announced 3 significant transactions in the Q4, including two development joint ventures and the successful resolution to our relationship with Cyxtera. We also raised $1.2 billion of equity under our ATM since the end of September. I will quickly run through the highlights of these transactions. In early January, Greg completed his famed triple lindy with his Cyxtera transaction by selling $275 million of assets to Brookfield, along with the purchase of Cyxtera's leasehold positions in Singapore and Frankfurt for $55 million, yielding net cash of $220 million to Digital Realty. In addition, Brookfield assumed three existing leases and amended three others in our portfolio to accelerate their expiration to the end of September 2024. Finally, Digital Realty obtained and exercised an option to purchase a Cyxtera data center in the Slough Trading Estate, adding one of London's highly sought-after submarkets to Platform Digital's connectivity and enterprise colo offering. This transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close toward the end of the first quarter. In November, Realty Income purchased an 80% interest in two $400 million data centers that are under development and leased to an investment-grade financial services company. The tenant has the option to expand the facility up to an estimated potential cost of $800 million. We received $200 million upon closing and reduced our funding obligations for the remainder of this project to just 20% of the total capital, enabling us to reinvest the capital in higher return projects. Finally, the $7 billion development joint venture with Blackstone is our largest and most forward-looking transaction and accelerates the monetization of nearly 20% of our 3+ Gigawatt land, land bank. This JV involves the sale of an 80% interest in nearly 500 MW of capacity across four campuses in Paris, Frankfurt, and Northern Virginia, and enables us to better support our hyperscale customers' needs. Approximately 20% of venture's total potential data center capacity is expected to be delivered through 2025. We will retain a 20% interest in these developments and earn fees for developing, leasing, operating, and managing these facilities. All told, in 2023, we announced or completed joint ventures and asset sales, driving leverage down roughly 1.3 turns from the first quarter peak, accelerating our ability to deliver needed capacity to our customers and enhancing our returns on invested capital. I would also be remiss if I did not mention Digital Core REIT's successful $120 million follow-on equity offering last week, which will support the REIT's planned acquisition of an incremental 24.9% interest in our jointly owned asset in Frankfurt for $125 million. Let's shift to a brief recap of our results and offer some insights into the trends we are seeing across our business. I'm pleased with our results for 2023, which helped to lay the foundation for an acceleration in long-term, sustainable growth in earnings and free cash flow that should take shape as we head into 2025. Our Q4 results were broadly consistent with the first three quarters of 2023, with continued strength in our operating performance KPIs and incremental improvement in our financial position as we continue to execute on our value proposition with a goal to support the increased demand for data center capacity. Leasing remained healthy, especially in our targeted 0-1+ interconnection segment, with 134 new logos, bringing our total new logos for 2023 to a new annual record of more than 500. Renewal spreads were strong for the fifth consecutive quarter, remaining positive across product types and regions. Same-Capital Cash NOI growth continued to demonstrate the underlying strength of our business with 9.9% year-over-year growth in the quarter. Churn remained low and well-controlled at 1%, while occupancy was impacted by the delivery of significant vacant development capacity. The combination of cloud and AI is driving unprecedented demand for scale and hyperscale capacity, alongside the steady enterprise and connectivity-oriented demand we're experiencing within our 0-1 Megawatt-plus interconnection segment. Supply constraints, driven by limited availability of power and global supply chain delays, have continued to drive the pricing pendulum in our favor, while our growing value proposition is increasing interest in our existing inventory and the new development that we have underway. Ongoing conversations with customers portend a significant potential acceleration of leasing and development, and we believe we are well positioned. The demand seems to be spilling across most markets, particularly for larger capacity blocks, though there are a few pockets of strength worth noting, including Northern Virginia, Santa Clara, New Jersey, Paris, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Seoul. Our new capacity is concentrated in core markets aligned with our global meeting place strategy.... While the scale of data center infrastructure opportunities has increased alongside AI's arrival, we remain disciplined and thoughtful, prioritizing locations that enhance Platform Digital connectivity and our connected campus communities. During the Q4, Digital demonstrated the benefits of collaborating with our partners, with the signing of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure dedicated region deployment by a financial services customer, showcasing the potential of the collaboration between Oracle and Digital Realty to fulfill enterprise customers' hybrid cloud requirements. Other customers are recognizing the growing value of Platform Digital's broad and open structure. An AI service provider leveraged Platform Digital's pre-provisioned, high-density colo offering to improve their time to market in order to extend their North America AI cloud offering that provides managed AI as a service for a global manufacturing client. A global service provider and partner targeting enterprise customers added more connectivity for their hybrid offerings on PlatformDIGITAL, enabling them to upgrade their IT environments to a consumption-based IT infrastructure and managed services model. A Global 2000 leader in material sciences for industrial and scientific applications needed a data center provider with global interconnectivity and access to cloud providers in Seoul, and chose PlatformDIGITAL to enable them to deploy and interconnect a private AI node. A Global 50 financial services company is migrating from an on-prem data center to PlatformDIGITAL and utilizing Service Fabric to improve sustainability, resiliency, scalability, security, and carrier diversity. And a leading Global 2000 consumer goods manufacturer grew their presence on PlatformDIGITAL by adding 2 additional metros to support their IT workloads and cloud connectivity. Moving over to a quick update on our largest market, Northern Virginia, we have over 100 MW available for lease today in Loudoun County and nearly 200 MW of capacity available for lease in Manassas. We are currently in active negotiations with a handful of customers for substantially all of our capacity in Loudoun, though in contrast with the rumor mill, nothing has been finalized just yet. Beyond this capacity, we have another 900 MW of buildable capacity at Digital Dulles, which we are cautiously optimistic will gain access to power in 2026 and beyond. We also expect to benefit from the active and ongoing management of our existing 500 MW portfolio in this market over time. Before turning it over to Matt, I'd like to touch on our ESG progress during the Q4. We continue to be recognized for our strong ESG performance in the Q4 and in 2024. We placed 2nd on Sustainability Magazine's list of top 10 sustainable data center providers. We improved to 8th on the U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership National Top 100 for renewable energy use, and we were named as a top-rated regional performer in North America by a leading global ESG ratings provider. We remain committed to minimizing Digital Realty's impact on the environment while delivering sustainable growth for all of our stakeholders. With that, I'm pleased to turn over the call to our CFO, Matt Mercier. Thank you, Andy. Let me jump right into our Q4 results. We signed a total of $110 million of new leases in the Q4, with $53 million of 0-1 MW plus interconnection leasing, led by strength in the EMEA region. Interconnection bookings rebounded sequentially to $13.5 million, and we finished the year with 220,000 cross connects despite continued network grooming. Turning to our backlog slide, the current backlog of signed but not yet commenced leases increased to a new record of $495 million at quarter end, as new leasing outran $84 million of commencements in the quarter. We expect commencements to pick up as nearly two-thirds of the backlog is scheduled to commence in 2024, with the majority coming in the second half of the year. During the Q4, we signed $210 million of renewal leases, with pricing increases of 8.2% on a cash basis, setting the high-water mark for the year, though this was skewed over 100 basis points by shorter-term renewals in one market. For the full year, cash renewal spreads were up 6.8%, or 5.5% when normalizing for short-term extensions. Releasing spreads were positive across product, market, and region in 2023, setting the foundation for an acceleration in long-term sustainable growth. In 2024, we expect the pricing environment to remain firm and renewal spreads to remain positive, principally reflecting the near 80% weighting of lease expirations in the 0-1 MW segment. In terms of earnings growth, we reported Q4 Core FFO of $1.63 per share and $6.59 for the full year, within our guidance range. Earnings reflect the continued strong organic results, together with the impact from capital recycling, deleveraging, and increased development spending throughout the year, as discussed on our third quarter call. Total revenue was up 11% year-over-year, despite the incremental drag from the stabilized JV contributions and the non-core asset sales that closed in the third quarter....As we also noted last quarter, year-over-year revenue growth continued to be positively impacted by the significant volatility in utility costs and reimbursements, particularly in Europe. Energy dynamics proved to be a tailwind for our results in 2023. Assuming more normalized energy prices, we expect the related upside impact will moderate in 2024. Interconnection revenue was $106 million, up 9% year-over-year, reflecting continued unit growth and price increases. Moving over to the expense side, utilities were 5% lower sequentially, reflecting the joint venture contributions over the summer, combined with seasonal impacts. Operating expenses increased due to seasonally elevated maintenance spending in the Q4. Property taxes fell back toward normalized levels, reflecting the one-time property tax reassessment experienced in the third quarter. Net of this movement, adjusted EBITDA increased 9% year-over-year. Improvement in our stabilized same-capital operating performance continued in the Q4, with a year-over-year cash NOI up a strong 9.9% and up 7.7% on a constant currency basis. For the full year, results were also strong, with cash NOI growth of 7.5% and 6.5% on a constant currency basis. Focusing on investment activity, we spent $3 billion on development in 2023, net of the proceeds received from our first development JV closing in November, and we delivered over 230 MW of new capacity across the globe. Turning to the balance sheet, we continued to strengthen our balance sheet since the end of the third quarter, with the sale of $1.2 billion of equity through the ATM at an average price of $133 per share, achieving our goal of lowering our leverage towards 6 times and finishing the year at 6.2 times. After year-end, we made further progress on the balance sheet with the closings of the Cyxtera transactions and the first phase of the Blackstone joint venture. GI Partners also exercised their option and closed on an additional 15% share of the two stabilized assets in our Chicago JV, bringing their stake to 80%. Pro forma for these activities, year-end leverage was 5.8 times. S&P recognized our progress in December and upgraded our outlook. Early in the Q4, we paid off our CHF 100 million Swiss franc notes and closed the Realty Income Joint Venture, which generated $200 million of gross proceeds and reduced our CapEx commitments for the remainder of the projects development. We continue to keep significant cash on the balance sheet with over $1.6 billion at year-end, as we continue to prioritize the liquidity to support ongoing development spend. Moving on to our debt profile. Our weighted average debt maturity is nearly 4.5 years, and our weighted average interest rate is 2.9%. Approximately 84% of our debt is non-U.S. dollar denominated, reflecting the growth of our global platform and our FX hedging strategy. Approximately 85% of our net debt is fixed rate, and 97% of our debt is unsecured, providing ample flexibility for capital recycling. Finally, we have less than $1 billion of debt maturing in 2024, and beyond that, our maturities remain well-laddered through 2032. I'll finish with guidance. We are providing an initial Core FFO per share guidance range for the full year of 2024 of $6.60-$6.75, reflecting the underlying growth of our business, offset by the impact of the deleveraging activities we completed or announced in 2023. As a reminder, over the course of 2024 and 2025, we expect that our $6 billion development pipeline will become increasingly accretive as higher-yielding projects deliver. For 2024, we expect total revenue to grow by 2% and adjusted EBITDA to grow by 4% at the midpoint of our guidance ranges. When normalizing this growth for the impact of capital recycling, total revenue and adjusted EBITDA are anticipated to grow by 7% and 10%, respectively, in 2024. We expect both our cash and GAAP re-leasing spreads, along with same capital cash NOI growth, to remain solidly positive, while occupancy is expected to improve steadily throughout the year as our record backlog commences and available capacity is leased. Specifically, cash re-leasing spreads are expected to increase by 4%-6% in 2024. Same-capital Cash NOI is expected to grow by 2% to 3%, given the tougher base year comparison versus last year's 7.5% growth and our expectations for FX and energy pricing in our colo segment. Total portfolio occupancy is expected to improve by 100 to 200 basis points by the end of 2024, while total occupancy slipped to 81.7% in the Q4 of 2023. This was predominantly driven by the delivery of substantial vacant development capacity that is slated to be occupied, as same-capital occupancy was stable quarter-over-quarter. We also expect to continue to recycle capital in 2024, with non-core asset sales and stabilized joint ventures, raising $1.25 billion at the midpoint of our guidance range. Nearly a third of this activity was completed in early January, while a balance should close throughout this year. Along with cash on hand and retained cash flow from operations, this capital is expected to be the primary funding source of our $2 billion to $2.5 billion net development CapEx program for 2024. To be clear, this approximately 25% reduction in development spend year-over-year represents Digital Realty's share of CapEx spend. The total development spend on these projects will be higher when including our partners' pro rata share. This concludes our prepared remarks, and now we'll be pleased to take your questions. Operator, would you please begin the Q&A session? We will now open up the call for questions. In the interest of time and to allow a larger number of people to ask questions, callers will be limited to one question. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Michael Rollins with Citi. Please go ahead. Thanks, and good afternoon. A couple questions. You know, first, in terms of, and you were just describing the shift in same-capital Cash NOI growth from 7.5 to 2-3. Can you unpack more of, you know, what you're seeing in 2024, relative to 2023, and, and how pricing kind of comes into, you know, the, the expectation for 2024? Hey, thanks, Mike. So we'll try to weave that into one answer to try to stick to one question and get through the whole roster and maybe loop back. But I'll turn it to Matt to call, give you the bridge from on same-store basis. Sure. Thanks, Mike. So a couple of things that I would call out. First, in terms of the re-leasing spreads and their influence. First off, I think as we know, not all of our leases roll within the calendar year, so we roll roughly 20% to 25% of our portfolio in a year, and of that, 80% is in the 0-1 Megawatt category, which is influenced by inflation or CPI, which we've seen come down over the course of the year, and therefore, part of the mark-to-market pricing within that segment. Then, when you flip over to the other 20%, which is in the greater than 1 Megawatt category, we're seeing in 2024, expiring rents that are higher than where... What we saw in 2023, which creates a tougher comp in terms of the role, despite, you know, strong market rents and overall growth. So that's on the spread side. The other part that I would call out is, you know, in 2023, we saw benefits or tailwinds from FX as well as power pricing, which we're not seeing in 2024. And lastly, in 2024, we're expecting higher property tax expense. So putting all those together kind of is why you're seeing sort of the still positive, but not as positive as 2023, results for same-store portfolio in 2024. The next question comes from David Barden with Bank of America. Please go ahead. Hey, guys, thanks so much for taking the questions. Maybe first, you know, last night we heard from one of your peers that the higher power prices in 2023 have created some sort of lagged, crowding out effect in terms of budgeting and decision-making. And I was wondering if you could kind of talk a little bit about that. It kind of sounded like maybe you're hearing or seeing some of that in your colo business, but it wasn't crystal. And then, just as a follow-up, if I could, Matt, can you break down that $1.25 billion in kind of, or the rest of the $1.25 billion that's closing this year? What is... You know, how does it all break down and the cadence of that? Thank you. Hey, thanks, Dave. This is Andy. I don't think we're experiencing the same exact dynamics on power as what you heard last night, quite honestly. I think what you just heard from Matt is the comps on a growth basis in the same-store pool are not as big. We benefited in 2023 from power, and we're not going to have that kind of benefit repeat itself in 2024, assuming. And I think this all is going to be washed out once we say goodbye to 2025, assuming we don't go back into this another, call it, very volatile power environment. So it's almost one time in nature. I don't believe that has impacted buyer behavior, and I don't believe we're suffering or benefiting, depending on the period, from to the same degree of what was described. Maybe that's due to the market mix, overall business mix, and our hedging strategy, which are not identical. I can tell you from a business standpoint, and you can see this in the results. We capped off a very strong year, let's call focused on the enterprise colo connectivity segment. Record overall new logos, north of 500. Strong quarters of new signings. You had a very strong interconnection quarter, both in new signings and also what flowed to the P&L, which has been accelerating, and net absorption, certainly in that category, that was strong, in the Q4 and through the year. So I don't see the power of flowing through. I know we're trying to get to a one question per thing and then rotate back, but we'll as we, as we move there, Greg, why don't you touch on the components of the $1.25 billion in our, in our guidance, for Dave? Sure. Thanks, Andy. Hey, David, how are you? Look, I think again, there's two components there. It's really, it's a stabilized joint ventures, and it's our sort of non-core asset disposition. And when you look at that, you know, call it $1.25 billion or a range of $1 billion-$1.5 billion, call it. I think it's important to note that over a third of that has already been announced and is either closed or is pending close. So, obviously, we feel good about that number, and it's clearly, you know, much less in the context of last year. The next question comes from Michael Elias with TD Cowen. Please go ahead. Great. Thanks for taking the question. So Andy, we're in the middle of one of the strongest hyperscale demand environments that we've seen in recent history. I was wondering, can you talk about the go forward demand pipeline and the relative strength of the pipeline versus last year? And as part of that, can you talk about the opportunity set for the pricing for new leasing, specifically, do you see there being a governor on pricing, given the supply-demand backdrop that we're seeing? Thank you. Thanks, Michael. So, I would say on a year-over-year basis, the dynamics has changed tremendously on so many fronts. Overall, the pipeline for hyperscale has continued to grow to new heights. I view the AI demand as a new wave of demand, incremental. It's called enterprise hybrid IT, certainly an incremental to hyperscale cloud compute. And this is all played out in the backdrop of tightening supply-demand dynamics that has caused, as we've described over several quarters now, moved the pendulum on pricing more and more in the favor of providers like Digital Realty. Is there a ceiling? Listen, I think we've seen rates run tremendously. We just, this quarter, reported in that segment, Northern and Megawatt, call it, our highest GAAP rate ever, at $145. We are continuing to see. It's almost like some of these customers, who are often on calendar fiscal years, just like Digital Realty, wrapped up one budget cycle and got a budget refresh and came back in 2024, with an incremental appetite for demand. These customers are seeking some of the same things. Where we intersect with that demand is in our large scale, hyperscale campuses that are in our major markets, and especially with larger capacity blocks that have contiguous capacity, are the most sought after. And those rates continue to run, in terms of what we've signed, and where we've put out quotes. And I think we're very well positioned. If you look at our footprint, you can see a lot of it on development, capacity life cycle, which is just a portion of what we activate in Northern Virginia right now, but some of the other major markets as well, to capture a good more than our fair share of that demand. And lastly, listen, I think there's a broader acknowledgment, whether it is hyperscale compute or AI workloads, that these customers are time to market. Many of them are trying to land precious GPUs, that are just enormous business opportunities for these customers. And our rent, even historically, but certainly today, plays a very small economic piece in that equation, relative to their ability to launch their services, and be first to market, many times. The next question comes from Jonathan Atkin with RBC. Please go ahead. Yeah, I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about where we might end the year, kind of in terms of leverage, what are some of the outcomes there and the role of ATM issuances, equity issuance, as part of that? Thanks. Sure. Thanks, Jonathan. So, you know, look, I think you've seen the results of the work we've done in 2023, where we talked about getting down to the 6 times area, and, you know, the execution that not only Greg's team did with the transactions that we closed, but also sales on the ATM that we did early in the year, and then more recently, ge tting to that point and actually breaking through that. When you look at it on a pro forma basis, we're at 5.8x. And so we continue to want to get down towards that 5.5 times area, which is the same messaging we've had since the start of 2023. and we've executed on that path. And we think that the plan that we've laid out here in terms of our guidance, will enable us, to get us there, where we're continuing some level of capital recycling, given the broad and diverse sources of capital that we've got available to us. And that's, and that's the plan we're gonna, we're gonna continue to go down in terms of, marching towards that 5.5 area, which is a, a smaller task than what we did in 2023. The next question comes from Irving Lu with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Hi, thank you for the question. I'll stick to one. Andy, you mentioned demand for large blocks of capacity in several key markets, such as Nova and Silicon Valley, among some of the other major markets. At an aggregate level, I think overall supply remains very low in some of these markets. But specifically for you, has lower available capacity been a gating factor for your greater than 1 Megawatt signings performance? Thanks, Irving. We certainly have a really great opportunity to intersect with these larger capacity block needs of our customers, be it for AI or hyperscale. It is, I would say, maybe potentially unparalleled in what we can offer in Northern Virginia today in terms of available capacity in a market that's shut down in terms of new power till 2026. But the list goes beyond that, whether it's Dallas, Santa Clara, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Seoul, or parts of Japan, not to mention some of our joint ventures in Latin America and South Africa. We've taken an approach, quite honestly, where many of these capacity blocks for ourselves and many providers were at the early stages of development. They were at land, went pad ready, shells were coming online, and just the first suites were coming online. Throughout 2023, we took a more, call it, approach, whereby we didn't go run after the first deal out of the gate for some of these customers, because we knew we weren't losing a revenue opportunity because the capacity wasn't even being able to be moved into or at least commenced. In hindsight, that's proven fortuitous, because as the year has played out, and certainly as 2024 has gotten off to the out of its gates, we've continued to see what we're offering is becoming much more and more attractive to an even broader and diverse set of customers. So, I don't think we'll be able to spend, to be wait too long in 2024. We obviously now have some capacity blocks that are actually live, and we can commence rent on, so we do have some urgency to get that going. But I think our patience and prudence here in approach allowed us to prove right. Listen, sometimes better be lucky than smart. If I would've known Ashburn would have run out of power years ago, I would've, we wouldn't have sold all that capacity we had to lease at the time. But this time, the luck was on our side. The next question comes from David Garino with Green Street. Please go ahead. Thanks. Hey, Andy, on your comments, at least how I heard them, a potentially very high ceiling for rental rates. As I kind of take that into consideration and look across the lease expiration table in the greater than 1 Megawatt category, it appears you guys have a pretty favorable mark-to-market rent opportunity over the next few years. Am I fair to make that assumption, or is there a chance that some of your leases might have clauses that could limit how much you're able to participate in the upside? Hey, thanks, David. So I think you heard me loud and clear on where rates have come from and where they've gone and where they're likely to continue to move. And some of these markets haven't even hit peak historical rates if you look at the whole span of data center capacity. So I don't think we're at a rent bubble or near that necessarily. And it's been on the back of real constraints and build costs that have inflated and issues. So they are—I believe these rental moves are justified. I think you will continue to see the cash mark-to-markets flow through in our favor. We did call out and in, and throughout last year and in the script that for this quarter, that we had some episodic short-term renewals that inflated our cash mark-to-markets. But we think being called 4%-6% in that category overall is pretty in our favor. And to your question on the bigger deals, where you're gonna have these potential roll-ups, yes, we do have subsections of our contracts that have clauses that are certainly in the favor of our customer. When the market was quite the opposite of what it was today, and it was filling vacant capacity, we certainly had to succumb to some of those clauses that our customers. But they all often are very narrowly defined in terms of fixed duration of renewal time period and other bells and whistles. And when a customer, which they often do, wants to negotiate outside of that box, that opens up the contract for renegotiation. And we try to collaborate with our customers to come in to a mutually agreeable outcome. So that's a long-winded way of saying, I don't think we'll be able to roll every one of those, call it sub 100+ MW, directly up to the 140 or 150 or 160 or whatever we're going in the market. But I think we'll—I do think there is gonna be a positive mark-to-market in that category for some years to come. The next question comes from Ari Klein with BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Thanks. Andy, there's a lot of moving parts that are impacting the 2024 guidance that I think Matt mentioned, 10% EBITDA growth normalized for the deleveraging activity. I guess, as you move past some of the headwinds creating dilution, and as you noted, it seems like pricing and mark-to-market tailwind should be here for a while. What kind of growth do you think you can deliver beyond 2024 on the bottom line from a longer-term standpoint? Matt, do you want to start us off on that one? Sure. Yeah, so a couple of things. So, Ari, thanks. You know, as we did mention, on a normalized basis in 2024, for a lot of the transactional activity that hit in 2023 and some... and what we expect in 2024, you know, I do want to reiterate, we're looking at normalized growth that's 7% on revenue and 10% on EBITDA, as you noted. And so 2024 is seeing the impact from the timing of those transactions and close, where in 2023, they were in the second half of the year, and 2024, we're expecting them, as Greg noted earlier, where we've already got a decent portion out under contract. Those are closed in the first part of 2024, so creating some of that impact on 2024 bottom line. And we did all that at the same time. Again, just as a reminder, that we're delivering over a term. If you know, if you look through all that, what we would expect is that, you know, we look at it in sort of two buckets in terms of call it the growth algorithm. First one being, you know, we would expect on a on our stabilized same-store pool to have see growth in that 3% to 4% area. On top of that, you know, looking at our development pipeline, you know, the favorable pricing, better yields, and as those start to deliver in 2024 and in 2025, you know, we would expect to see another 1% to 2% on top of that. So together, that gets us to kind of the mid to high single digits that we should expect to see in 2025 and beyond. The next question comes from Frank Louthan with Raymond James. Please go ahead. Frank, your line is open. Sorry about that. I've heard from several of your peers, and some equipment companies and so forth, about some macro issues that they're seeing with some elongated sales cycles and squeezing some IT budgets. You mentioned some cross-connect grooming you've seen. Are you seeing anything like that from your enterprise business or elsewhere, from any sort of macro pressures in part of your business? Hey, thanks, Frank. I'm going to have Colin tackle what we're seeing in the, I'll call it, enterprise, sales cycles. Yeah. Thanks, Frank, for the question. Appreciate it. As Andy highlighted, the pipeline across the board is robust, and that's both above and below 1 MW. Certainly see our customers engaging consistently with us related to growing their platform globally. So that 53 million back-to-back strong quarters, I think, is a testimony to how we're supporting their needs pretty well. In fact, 1,000+ companies landed with us in Q4, which again, I think it's a strong growth testimony. In terms of time to close overall, I think we've highlighted previously a couple of hiccups, maybe early in the year, Q1, Q2, in terms of expanded time to close. We haven't really seen that honestly to date. It's really flattened out, and so I really think that's a—it's a byproduct of us engaging, showing up differently. The new logo engagement, I think, overall, has been particularly strong. You know, we did 134 new logos last quarter. So on the enterprise side, on the whole, I think we've seen pretty strong interest pipeline and then execution on the whole. Right. And one thing I'd like to spread a bit more detail on the equipment. With the offering that we launched last year around the high-density colo, in anticipation of a lot of private AI type of deployments coming to market, a part of that program is not only that the 32 markets in 3 regions being able to do 70 KW a rack. What we're really doing is pre-buying a lot of the technology to support that power density, to allow our customers to apply it to deploy in a very timely fashion, but also expedites a bit of that higher-end kind of new AI capability coming to market. The next question comes from Matt Niknam with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Hey, thank you for taking the question. Financial question. So with leverage now back under six turns on a pro forma basis, how do you now think about the dividend and potential forward growth relative to incremental investment in the business and, or, potential M&A? Thanks. Thanks, Matt. So multifaceted. I'm going to hand to Matt to explain how the dividend call works in terms of taxable income and distribution and, why the dividend is set where, where it is set. Because I think the, the topic of M&A, I mean, you could look at the litany of press releases or just recent events we've done in just the last several months through resolving our relationship with Cyxtera, to growing our, our platform in India with the addition of Reliance Jio. We've also just had a big announcement with a leader in the GP2 space recently, to disposing of some non-core assets, JVs stabilized assets, and adding strategically to our land holdings, across key markets. So, we've been incredibly active on pieces of that, I think more, the broader context of M&A, I think the most critical puzzle pieces have kind of been picked over, and most of our activity from here are really called extending our strategic advantages, and bolt-on in nature, to what we have. I don't see any, like, key gems out there that would be really additive to our global platform at speeds. Matt, why don't you hit on the dividend, just because Matt brought that up? Sure. I mean, you know, similar to what we've talked about in 2023. I mean, there's two major components in terms of the dividend and related taxable income. There's our ordinary income that we get from operations, and then there's also the income that's generated from, you know, transactions and then, and the related gains that we have from executing those, which we had a sizable amount in 2023. Now we're looking at, you know, less transaction size in 2024, but as you saw in the guide, we talked about $1 billion to $1.5 billion. So we'll expect that there'll still be, you know, related income from that, and we still have cash flow even after dividend, and we think we'll be able to support where we are. And ultimately, you know, our goal and target is that we, you know, we grow the dividend as AFFO and as our cash flow grows, which we expect we'll start to see over the long term, you know, related to the growth algorithm that I talked about earlier. The next question comes from Simon Flannery with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Great. Thanks very much. Good evening. I wanted to just talk about the mix between the 0-1 MW and the greater than 1 MW. It looks like you, you had almost 50% coming from 0-1 plus interconnection. That's been gradually rising over the last few quarters. So how do we think about this going forward, your focus on. Should, should that mix trend higher than the 50/50, or is it gonna be jumping around as it has done in the past? Thanks. Hey, thanks, Simon. So, I mean, one of our top, top, top priorities is to continue to focus on delivering a acceleration in that 0-1 Megawatt interconnection cohort, enterprise connectivity-oriented customers, the most granular and the largest volume of over 5,000 customers, as well as our new logos. By and large, the more quarters where that represents a larger and increasing piece of the mix and continues to accelerate like it has done recently, that is filling our existing vacant capacity, it's wins at our highest rates, it's multi-market, multi-geo, enterprise customers, and is the place where we believe we can deliver the greatest value to our customers, most consistently and long-term and durable. There will be episodic quarters where that will be a lower percentage, but that's likely not because we've faltered in our execution. That's likely because we've also are supporting some of the largest hyperscalers around the world. We're bringing our capacity in over half of our 50+ metropolitan areas, places where we can really add value to those customers, where they've already landed their compute or AZs, where they want to grow in our contiguous capacity with operational excellence, where we have that long runway of growth that they can get from nowhere else. And those will be quarters where we will be signing larger, lumpier deals, obviously, into those capacity blocks. So, we think both of these are large addressable markets where we have a distinct value proposition and a competitive moat that we'll continue to focus on executing each and every day. The next question comes from Eric Luebchow with People. Please go ahead. Yeah, thanks for taking the question. Maybe just on AI, it seems you know, most of the demand in the early stages is expected to come from training versus inferencing. But you know, we heard from Microsoft on their earnings call, and they said that most of the AI strength that they were seeing for Azure was, in fact, from inferencing workloads. Are you seeing the same as it relates to sort of the demand patterns from your customers? And then maybe you know, any way to quantify how much AI has contributed or the size of the opportunity? Thanks. Hey, thanks, Eric. Let me just touch on this a little bit and then hand it to Chris to walk you through chapter and verse. I look at where our heritage is as a company, is this AI opportunity is tremendously in our wheelhouse. We came at this from a hyperscale piece of the business and built the colo connectivity capabilities organically and inorganically. We are often taking larger halls that are at higher power densities and using our engineering prowess to work for enterprise customers and pushing their boundaries on power densities. I can tell you, AI workloads were at Digital before I joined, over 9 years ago. We've done retrofits on existing deployments just to fit out for customers needing AI, just this year. At the end of last year, I was touring one of our Paris facilities, where one of our partners, customers, had fitted out a liquid cooling for a multinational financial services company, live environments, which meant that they had to get going on that years ago to be live at the end of last year. So this is right in our wheelhouse, and we've been winning in that category in the last year in the, call it, sub-100-Kilowatt domain to the 30+-Megawatt piece of this, and you've seen some testimonials on that. Chris, why don't you give a little bit of color as to some of the verticals we've been winning in, and where you see this going as well? Yeah, it's a great question, and appreciate it, Eric. I think there's a couple of dynamics that you touched on. The training to inference, that's something that we've been watching for some time, and we're selective with some of the training environments, just because we're looking for a long-term, durable workload being deployed into the asset. And so a lot of the customers we see today are actually doing training or inference inside of their training, just because of sheer availability of the GPUs and time to market. But we definitely see the long tail of that value happening in inference and then also a kind of another section of private AI. And so we're seeing customers come to market with these types of requirements, where Andy alluded to this at a high level, coming from our heritage of scale and then being able to evolve and support a colo type of capability, if you will, allows us to support a higher power density need with our versatile designs. And so being highly focused on that with a lot of the hyperscale customers and being foundational for their cloud services has been top of mind. And then I think another element that may be overlooked is a lot of this inference is embedded in a lot of our top customers' today's capabilities. So when you read about, and I think you referenced, you know, Microsoft and the work that they've been doing with Copilot, a lot of that AI is embedded in enhancing their current product capabilities. And so we're constantly watching how that evolves, but being proximate to, you know, the AI being proximate to the existing infrastructure and workload is absolutely something that we're very excited about because that inference benefits from the data oceans that exist within Digital Realty, their current infrastructure, and how all that culminates together. So it's something you'll see play out over this year. I think we just had a really good case study with KakaoBank, where that's a highlighted private AI deployment, where they're able to generate and do a little bit of R&D around new product offerings for a financial vertical. So these are the things you're going to see play out in 2024 that we're very excited about. The next question comes from Nick Del Deo with MoffettNathanson. Please go ahead. Hey, thanks for squeezing me in. I was wondering if you could expand a little bit on the assumptions you're making behind about the broader lease environment and the pricing environment to get to the 4% to 6% range for cash renewal spreads. Are you just basically taking current prices as a given, or are you kind of assuming further increases or other changes? And can you share anything about how the expected renewal spreads look for you know, zero to one versus greater than one categories? Thanks. Sure, Matt. Why don't you take that? Yeah, so thanks, Nick. In with regard to... I think I'll go back to some of the comments I had, I think from one of the first questions. So with regard to 0-1 Megawatt, you know, that's on both the escalation and renewals, tends to be influenced by inflation, where CPI is coming in. So that's gonna, that's gonna be spread across the leases that are rolling, whether they be in North America versus EMEA. You know, and those have come down, you know, since last year and more in that 3% to 4% range. And then on the greater than a Megawatt, you know, as I mentioned, you know, we're assuming, call it, current market pricing, and that's more heavily influenced by where the expiring rates are, versus that. So that's within the greater than a Megawatt segment, which we're assuming is still positive and, you know, resulting in the 4% to 6% total that we've guided towards. The next question comes from Brandon Nispel with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Hey, thanks. Just a quick question. I think in the guidance, for development capital, this is the first time it's actually been guided to net capital contributions. Can you maybe talk about what, you know, your total capital outlay will look like in 2024 versus 2023 on a like-for-like basis? Thanks. Sure. Yeah. So I mean, obviously, the net is given the development joint ventures that we've established, you know, over 2023, and that will also close that are under contract throughout 2024. In particular, with the one we announced with Blackstone, phase one is already closed, and phase two is later in the year. And, you know, if you're looking at it from a gross basis and comparison, we're expecting in 2024, on a gross basis, we'd be spending north of $3.5 billion in terms of total CapEx, and it would be, you know, which would be roughly 15% higher than the amount that we spent in 2023. That concludes the Q&A portion of today's call. I'd now like to turn the call back over to President and CEO, Andy Power, for his closing remarks. Thank you, Betsy. Digital Realty capped off a transformative 2023, with a strong Q4 that was highlighted by three key elements. First, we sourced over $12 billion of new capital and commitments from an array of hyperscale private capital partners, deleveraging our balance sheet and positioning the company for the future. Second, we posted another quarter of improving organic operating results, with the best same-capital Cash NOI growth in nearly a decade, and we are just on the cusp of the AI wave of demand. Third, we continue to grow our footprint and capacity around the world, with record deliveries in 2023, to meet the accelerating needs of our growing customer base. These customers look to us to help enable their IT solutions, whether that is AI, cloud, or even enterprises, along their digital transformation journeys. Our value proposition is resonating. I'd like to thank everyone for joining us today, with a special thank you to our dedicated and exceptional team at Digital Realty, who keeps the digital world turning. Thank you. The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now dis-