0001297996-16-000270.txt : 20161110 0001297996-16-000270.hdr.sgml : 20161110 20161110204027 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001297996-16-000270 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20161031 FILED AS OF DATE: 20161110 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20161110 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Digital Realty Trust, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001297996 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798] IRS NUMBER: 260081711 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER STREET 2: SUITE 3200 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94111 BUSINESS PHONE: (415)738-6500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER STREET 2: SUITE 3200 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94111 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Papes Daniel W CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001689014 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-32336 FILM NUMBER: 161989783 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTERE STREET 2: SUITE 3200 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94111 3 1 wf-form3_147882841400498.xml FORM 3 X0206 3 2016-10-31 0 0001297996 Digital Realty Trust, Inc. DLR 0001689014 Papes Daniel W FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER SUITE 3200 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111 0 1 0 0 SVP, Global Sales, Marketing No securities are beneficially owned. 0 D This initial statement of beneficial ownership of securities ("Form 3") of the Issuer is filed to report information that is also being reported concurrently on a Form 3 for Digital Realty Trust, L.P., a Maryland limited partnership (the "Operating Partnership") of which the Issuer is the general partner. The information reported on this Form 3 for the Issuer is the same information reported in the Form 3 for the Operating Partnership. /s/ Salini Nandipati, as attorney in fact 2016-11-10 EX-24 2 poapapesnov2016.htm PAPES POWER OF ATTORNEY Exhibit

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Joshua A. Mills, Salini Nandipati, and Chris Visgilio, or each of them singly, to be the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer, director and/or stockholder of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. and, in Digital Realty Trust, Inc.’s capacity as general partner of Digital Realty Trust, L.P., Digital Realty Trust, L.P. (together, the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 and amendments thereto in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(3)do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and any amendments thereto and timely file such forms with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority, including, but not limited to, taking any actions necessary or desirable in connection with effectuating electronic filings; and

(4)take any other action of any type whatsoever which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be necessary or desirable in connection with the foregoing authority, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. This Power of Attorney may be filed with the SEC as a confirming statement of the authority granted herein.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of November, 2016



/s/ Daniel W. Papes
Daniel W. Papes