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Digital Realty: Geographic Expansion
Digital Realty opened a 6.4MW carrier-neutral data centre (Nairobi Two/NBO2) in Nairobi, Kenya, positioned as a gateway for East African digital infrastructure. The facility is co-located 300m from its existing Nairobi One facility and offers redundant connectivity across 100+ networks, IXPs, and satellite teleport access.
Source: Capacity Media
- What happened
- Digital Realty opened a 6.4MW carrier-neutral data centre (Nairobi Two/NBO2) in Nairobi, Kenya, positioned as a gateway for East African digital infrastructure. The facility is co-located 300m from its existing Nairobi One facility and offers redundant connectivity across 100+ networks, IXPs, and satellite teleport access.
- Who
- Digital Realty · PropTech · Kenya
- When
- 2026-09-08
- Source
- Capacity Media
- So what
- Market entry is a leadership problem before it is a logistics one.
The leadership read
Market entry is a leadership problem before it is a logistics one. Digital Realty moving into new ground in PropTech deepens demand for in-region leaders who can localise the model without diluting it. Across EMEA, watch whether senior in-market leadership is appointed early; expansions run remotely rarely hold.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 122.7 (Hot) (up 17.8 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-17.7pts) on signal share.
Digital Realty: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the PropTech median of 1 across 22 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 6 tracked across 96 days.
Market entry — the MitchelLake playbook
When a company expands into a new market, the first leadership hires decide whether it lands. A selection of market entries we've run:
All market-entry case studies →MitchelLake in this thematic
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Capital Raising · EMEA
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Partnership · EMEA
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Product Launch · EMEA
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Where this lands in our work
- Cross Border Expansion Executive Search →
The peak executive-hiring window opens 12–18 months after an expansion commitment.
- Executive Search: EMEA →
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