Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR)

Data center REIT, 4,282, 48% in EMEA. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 2 of the 17 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,282 full-time employees by region in one data center business with nothing counted by function, so one hosting infrastructure pattern carries the workforce.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 29% now, 56% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 22% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 57% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,282 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states 1,948 of 4,282 employees in North America, 2,040 in EMEA and 294 in Asia Pacific; North America is not a U.S. count, so the share stays null, and the United States is 52% of revenue.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 4,282 full-time employees. North America 1,948, EMEA 2,040, Asia Pacific 294, Total 4,282.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 4,282 full-time employees: 1,948 in North America, 2,040 in EMEA, 294 in Asia Pacific; up from 3,936 a year earlier.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS, 44,000 employees)29% now, 69% by 2028
• SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC, 28,800 employees)28% now, 69% by 2028
• Moody's Corporation (MCO, 16,076 employees)31% now, 69% by 2028
• Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR, 16,000 employees)34% now, 66% by 2028
• Equinix, Inc. (EQIX, 13,716 employees)28% now, 67% by 2028
• Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE, 12,844 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS, 12,800 employees)29% now, 69% by 2028
• Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM, 11,000 employees)28% now, 68% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI, with cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, among the drivers of demand for its data center infrastructure.

• “The Internet of Things, 5G, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence, among other technological advancements, are driving this digital transformation.”
• “We believe cloud and hybrid cloud solutions and artificial intelligence technologies, along with other digital transformation initiatives, will remain significant drivers of demand for data center infrastructure.”
• “Risk Related to Our Business and Operations ● Our business depends upon the demand for data centers. 14 Table of Contents ​ Index to Financial Statements ​ ● We depend upon third-party suppliers for power and we are vulnerable to service failures and price increases by such suppliers and to volatility in the supply and price of power in the open market. ● We face significant competition, which...”
• “There can also be no assurance that our cybersecurity risk management processes will be fully implemented as currently anticipated, complied with or effective in protecting our or our customers' Information Systems and data, particularly because threat actors are increasingly sophisticated and using tools such as AI that circumvent controls and evade detection, making detection, mitigation and...”
• “The tenant improvements may also become outdated or obsolete as the result of technological change, the passage of time or other factors, including the recent acceleration in AI adoption and rapid advancements in compute, cooling and power technologies, which continue to drive evolving customer requirements, deployment architectures, and buying criteria .”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20233median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 202513median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• No count by function; the data center operations and the property work behind them are read together at hosting infrastructure.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-015365, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.