Digital Realty Trust: AI Boom Reaching Fever Pitch - Momentum Reversal Likely

The ongoing AI boom continues in Q2'25, with numerous market players reaffirming the durability of data-center related spending trends, including TSM and GOOG. These reasons may have directly contributed to DLR's double-beat FQ2'25 performance and the raised FY2025 guidance, as the stock retests prior heights. The REIT also reports growing multi-year backlog at a higher base rent per square foot (at more than triple pre-pandemic rates), which explains the aggressive capacity expansion efforts thus far.