DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. New Standards Disclosure

New Accounting Pronouncements.

Income Taxes. In December 2023, FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes ("Topic 740"): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This ASU is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures by requiring (1) consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the rate reconciliation and (2) income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 and to be applied prospectively, with retrospective application and early adoption both permitted. During 2025, we adopted this ASU. See Note 12. “Income Taxes” for further discussion.

Income Statement. In November 2024, the FASB issued an ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, that will require entities to provide enhanced disclosures related to certain expense categories included in income statement captions. The ASU aims to increase transparency and provide investors with more detailed information about the nature of expenses reported on the face of the income statement. The new standard does not change the requirements for the presentation of expenses on the face of the income statement.

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Under this ASU, entities are required to disaggregate, in a tabular format, expense captions presented on the face of the income statement - excluding earnings or losses from equity method investments - if they include any of the following expense categories: purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depreciation or depletion. For any remaining items within each relevant expense caption, entities must provide a qualitative description of the nature of those expenses. The new ASU is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this ASU on January 1, 2027. While the adoption is not expected to have an impact on our financial statements, it is expected to result in incremental disclosures within the footnotes to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

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We determined that all other recently issued accounting pronouncements that have yet to be adopted by the Company will not have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements or do not apply to our operations.