Good afternoon, and welcome to the Digital Realty Fourth Quarter 2021 Earnings Call. Please note this event is being recorded. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question- and- answer session. Callers will be limited to one question plus a follow-up, and we will conclude promptly at the bottom of the hour. I would now like to turn the call over to Jim Huseby, Digital Realty's Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator, and welcome everyone to Digital Realty's Fourth Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. Joining me on today's call are CEO, Bill Stein and President and CFO, Andy Power. Chief Investment Officer, Greg Wright, Chief Technology Officer, Chris Sharp, and Chief Revenue Officer, Corey Dyer are also on the call, and they will be available for Q&A. Management may make forward-looking statements, including guidance and underlying assumptions on today's call. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For further discussion of the risks related to our business, please see our 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC. This call will contain non-GAAP financial information. Reconciliations to net income are included in the supplemental package furnished to the SEC and available on our website.
Before I turn the call over to Bill, I'd like to hit the highlights on our fourth quarter results. We further strengthened connections with customers with $156 million of new bookings, with record results in both the 0-1 MW and greater than 1 MW category, and ended the year with $500 million in new bookings, a 15% increase over the prior year. We also continued to enhance our global platform with the completion of organic development projects in multiple metros, despite the continued challenges presented by the pandemic and the global supply chain, in addition to strategic investments establishing Digital Realty as the leading Pan-African provider. Financially, we had a solid quarter, with full year results above the high end of the guidance range that we provided this time last year.
Finally, we continue to strengthen our balance sheet by raising equity capital through the establishment of Digital Core REIT in a highly successful IPO on the Singapore Exchange and the related sale of a 90% interest in 10 fully utilized core data centers. As a perpetual capital partner, Digital Realty and Digital Core REIT can continue to work together while providing our customers with a seamless experience. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Bill.
Thanks, Jim. Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us. Our formula for long-term value creation is a global, connected, sustainable framework, and we made further progress on each front during the fourth quarter. First, we continue to globalize our business with record global bookings and strength across all regions and all product types, including quarterly highs in both our sub 1 MW and greater than 1 MW categories. We also announced two significant global initiatives. First, in December, we announced the successful listing of Digital Core REIT as a standalone publicly traded company on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Digital Realty contributed a 90% interest in a portfolio of 10 core data centers concentrated in top- tier markets across the U.S. and Canada, valued at $1.4 billion at a 4.25% cap rate.
We generated net proceeds of over $950 million from the transaction, and we retained a 35% equity interest in the publicly traded REIT. The offering was very well received, and Digital Core REIT has traded up approximately 30% since the IPO, enhancing the gain on our remaining ownership stake. In addition to providing investors a stable cash flow stream from a portfolio of high quality core data centers, Digital Core REIT offers key strategic benefits to Digital Realty. First, Digital Core REIT is a perpetual capital partner. It has a long-term investment horizon and a global mandate to invest in stabilized income producing data centers. Second, Digital Core REIT has been carefully crafted to provide a seamless customer experience. Digital Core REIT is sponsored by and externally managed by Digital Realty.
We will continue to manage the properties, providing the same level of operational excellence, and we will earn fees for asset and property management as well as acquisitions, dispositions, and development. From a customer perspective, nothing changes when we contribute an asset to Digital Core REIT. Third, Digital Core REIT is an ideal partner vehicle for Digital Realty. We expect to contribute additional stabilized core assets to Digital Core REIT in the future, and we may also co-invest alongside Digital Core REIT on future investment activity. Finally, our interests are aligned. As mentioned, Digital Realty will continue to own a 10% direct ownership stake in each of the assets in addition to 35% in the publicly traded vehicle. Digital Core REIT is led by two longtime Digital Realty team members, John Stewart, who most of you know well, along with Dan Tith.
We are excited about their opportunity to create value for Digital Core REIT unit holders, including Digital Realty. Our second global initiative, which we announced just after quarter- end, is the definitive agreement to acquire roughly a 55% stake in Teraco, Africa's leading carrier-neutral colocation provider. This acquisition immediately establishes Digital Realty as the leading colocation and interconnection provider on the high-growth African continent and builds upon our earlier investments in Africa with iColo in both Kenya and Mozambique and in Medallion in Nigeria. Teraco complements these investments as well as our highly connected facilities in the Mediterranean by hosting the key strategic landing points for subsea cables circling Africa.
From Marseille and Athens in the north, Mombasa and Maputo along the east, Durban and Cape Town in the south, and Lagos along the western coast, PlatformDIGITAL is supporting the growth of our customers as well as the broader digital transformation of the entire African continent. Teraco has seven state-of-the-art data centers across three key metros in South Africa and serves over 600 customers, including more than 275 connectivity providers, over 25 cloud and content platforms, and approximately 300 enterprises. Teraco facilitates approximately 22,000 interconnections between customers and hosts seven cloud on-ramps and provides direct access to seven subsea cables. Teraco has historically generated healthy double-digit growth in revenue and EBITDA. In addition, more than half of Teraco's in-service portfolio was developed within the past two years. The current development pipeline will expand the existing asset base by over 25%.
Teraco owns land adjacent to its highly connected campuses in Johannesburg and Cape Town that will support another doubling of the in-place capacity, representing significant embedded growth potential and providing considerable runway to support our customers' growth. Leading global cloud and content platforms have recently begun making significant investments in Africa, given the existing capacity within the in-service portfolio, the incremental capacity currently under construction, and the strategic land holdings to support future expansion. Teraco is uniquely positioned to support the expected growth of digital infrastructure in Africa over the next several years. Let's discuss our sustainable growth initiatives on page three. During the fourth quarter, Digital Realty earned Nareit's Leader in the Light Award for the fifth consecutive year, complementing the company's five-star GRESB rating and top ranking within the technology and science sector.
Digital Realty was also named one of America's most responsible companies by Newsweek and was the number one ranked data center company. We continue to advance our sustainable financing strategy, recasting and upsizing our credit facility with improved terms while incorporating a sustainability-linked pricing component, with pricing subject to adjustment based on annual performance against certain green targets. We are committed to minimizing our impact on the environment while simultaneously meeting the needs of our customers, our investors, and our employees, along with the broader society, and advancing our goal of delivering sustainable growth for all these stakeholders. Let's turn to our investment activity on page four. We continue to invest in the expansion of our global platform.
In addition to the Teraco transaction, we've grown our presence along the eastern coast of Africa with iColo and supplemented our acquisition of Medallion Data Centers in Nigeria with two land purchases in Lagos for future development. Over the next decade, we expect to see huge opportunity for global businesses to tap into Africa's rapidly growing internet economy, and Digital Realty is uniquely positioned to enable this growth. We also continue to invest in the organic growth of our platform. We spent $580 million on growth CapEx in the fourth quarter, our largest quarterly growth CapEx investment to date. We currently have 44 projects underway, totaling more than 250 MW of IT capacity in 27 metros around the world. This capacity was 46% presold as of year-end.
Geographically, we continue to invest most heavily in EMEA, with 27 projects underway, totaling more than 140 MW across 16 metros. In Asia Pacific, we delivered several development projects during the fourth quarter, including facilities in Singapore and Hong Kong. In January, we opened Digital Seoul 1, our first data center in South Korea and the first carrier-neutral facility in the country. This facility will serve as a connectivity gateway for latency-sensitive customer workloads. It can be connected to Hyperscale applications hosted in our second facility in Korea, totaling over 60 MW of capacity currently under construction just outside the city center. The two facilities will be tied together with fiber to create a connected campus, and will complement each other by providing solutions for the full customer spectrum, from small, performance sensitive colocation customers to huge Hyperscale deployments.
In North America, our development pipeline is diversified by product mix as well as geographically, with projects underway in seven different markets. We continue to see strong Hyperscale demand in Hillsboro while we are expanding in downtown Atlanta to bring on additional colocation capacity at one of the most highly connected destinations in the Southeastern United States. We are bringing capacity online in both these markets, among others, given the robust demand backdrop and our tightening inventory position. Let's turn to the macro environment on page five. We are fortunate to be operating in a business levered to secular demand drivers. Our leadership position provides us with a unique vantage point to detect secular trends as they emerge globally on PlatformDIGITAL. Our customers continue to solve some of the most complex IT infrastructure, connectivity, and data integration challenges.
We are witnessing a growing trend of multinational companies across all segments, deploying and connecting large private data infrastructure footprints on PlatformDIGITAL across multiple regions and metros globally. Industry research firm Gartner recently updated their global IT spending forecast for 2022, projecting a 5.1% increase to $4.5 trillion, driven by companies investing in digital data growth strategies. Additionally, Gartner believes that by 2024, 75% of organizations will have deployed multiple data hubs to drive mission critical data analytics, sharing, and governance in support of digital data growth strategies. These forecasts are consistent with our view of where the puck is headed. Our market intelligence tool, the Data Gravity Index, forecasts similar growth in the intensity of data creation and its gravitational pull on global IT infrastructure.
In addition, our industry manifesto, Enabling Connected Data Communities, serves as the global playbook for industry collaboration to tackle data gravity challenges head on and unlock a new era of growth opportunity for all companies. Digital Realty was recently named Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for North American Data Center best practices. This award reflects our continued focus on operational excellence, underpinned by continuous innovation and execution of the PlatformDIGITAL roadmap. We are honored by the strong validation of the differentiated value proposition we are creating for customers and partners. Given the resiliency of the demand drivers underpinning our business and the relevance of our platform in meeting these needs, we believe we are well positioned to continue to deliver sustainable growth for customers, shareholders, and employees, whatever the macro environment may hold in store.
With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Andy to take you through our financial results.
Thank you, Bill. Let's turn to our leasing activity on page seven. As Bill noted, we delivered record bookings of $156 million, with an $11 million contribution from interconnection during the fourth quarter. Volume was elevated across both of our primary reporting categories in the quarter, with a healthy mix between Enterprise and Hyperscale business. For the full year, we booked $500 million of new business with roughly a 60/40 split between greater than 1 MW and less than a megawatt plus interconnection. The EMEA region had a particularly strong quarter, accounting for approximately 60% of total bookings, led by Frankfurt, with standout performance across product types. The fourth quarter was also notable for the strength of cross-selling between regions.
Nearly 30% of our sub 1 MW plus interconnection bookings were exported from one region to another, a strong indication of the value customers derive from our global platform. Not surprisingly, the Americas was our biggest exporter, with most deals landing in EMEA, followed by APAC. Both EMEA and APAC had strong export quarters as well, with over 15% of their sub 1 MW plus interconnection bookings landing out of region. The weighted average lease term was nearly 10 years, primarily driven by Hyperscale preleasing in EMEA. We landed over 130 new logos during the fourth quarter, our second-best quarterly result, and just shy of last quarter's record 140 for a full year total of 480 new logos.
We are encouraged by the consistent organic growth of our customer base, and we view these results as strong validation of PlatformDIGITAL and our global strategy. In terms of specific wins during the quarter and around the world, Graphcore, a British semiconductor company that develops accelerators and systems for AI and machine learning, selected PlatformDIGITAL to address their density, security, and scale requirements. The initial deployment will land in Amsterdam, to be followed by a global rollout, and we are also collaborating on solution engineering and joint go-to-market activities. A leading high-frequency trading shop is expanding on PlatformDIGITAL to extend their high-performance computing platform across two continents and expand trading into two new international metros while improving cloud access and business continuity stateside.
A Global 2000 US energy provider is expanding with Digital Realty, consolidating out of their own on-premise facilities and using PlatformDIGITAL to scale their business across multiple metros. A leading aerospace manufacturing and services company is expanding on PlatformDIGITAL, leveraging dense interconnection to support data exchange across four new markets. A Global 2000 insurance brokerage is consolidating their data center footprint and has adopted PlatformDIGITAL to remove data gravity barriers and interconnect with clouds across multiple metros. An Ivy League university is expanding on PlatformDIGITAL to exit their own on-premise facility and enhance their access to the healthcare provider community for data exchange. Finally, a major APAC food services organization selected PlatformDIGITAL to improve cloud connectivity and leverage local centers of data exchange in Japan. Turning to our backlog on page nine.
The current backlog of leases signed but not yet commenced rose from $330 million-$378 million as our record fourth quarter signings more than offset commencements. The lag between signings and commencements was unusually high at nearly 14 months, primarily driven by long-term leases on recent development starts in EMEA, as customers accelerate efforts to secure a long-term runway for growth against a backdrop of steadily dwindling inventory. Moving on to renewal leasing activity on page 10. We signed $151 million of renewal leases during the fourth quarter in addition to the record new leases signed. The weighted average lease term on renewals signed during the fourth quarter was nearly four years.
Renewal rates rolled down 4%, driven by a handful of large deals in North America, as negative re-leasing spreads on greater than 1 MW renewals more than offset the positive re-leasing spreads on the sub-1 MW renewals. In terms of operating performance, overall portfolio occupancy ticked down 60 basis points almost entirely due to development deliveries placed in service during the quarter. Same-store cash NOI growth was - 6.6% in the fourth quarter, primarily driven by churn in North America, as well as higher property operating and net utilities expense. As a reminder, the 2021 same-store pool did not include the Westin Building in Seattle, the Interxion platform in EMEA, Lamda Hellix in Greece, or Altus IT in Croatia.
Each of these businesses will be included in the same-store pool beginning in the first quarter of 2022, and each is expected to contribute to improving same-store growth going forward, partially offset by higher property taxes as well as FX headwinds expected in 2022. Turning to our economic risk mitigation strategies on page 11. The U.S. dollar strengthened during the fourth quarter relative to prior year exchange rates, and FX represented roughly 130 basis points headwind to the year-over-year growth in our reported results from the top to the bottom line. As a reminder, we manage currency risk by issuing locally denominated debt to act as a natural hedge, so only our net assets within a given region are exposed to the currency risk from an economic perspective.
In addition to managing credit risk and foreign currency exposure, we also mitigate interest rate risk by proactively terming out short-term variable rate debt with longer term fixed rate financing. Given our strategy of matching the duration of our long-lived assets with long-term fixed rate debt, a 100 basis point move in base rates would have roughly a 50 basis point impact on our full- year FFO per share. Our near-term funding and refinancing risk is very well managed, with a well-diversified menu of public and private capital sources available to fund the growth of our business. In terms of earnings growth, fourth quarter core FFO per share was up 4% year-over-year and up 1% sequentially, driven by solid operational execution, cost controls, and a reduction in financing costs due to proactive balance sheet management over the past 12 months.
For the full- year, Core FFO per share was up 5% year-over-year and came in $0.03 above the high end of our initial guidance range, which did not contemplate the contribution of $1.4 billion of assets to Digital Core REIT in early December. As a reminder, full-year Core FFO per share excludes the $20 million promote fee on the Prudential joint venture in the third quarter, as well as the $25 million PPA settlement in the first quarter. Looking ahead to 2022, we expect Core FFO per share will be between $6.80 and $6.90, including the 1% dilution from Teraco, as well as 100-200 basis points of expected FX headwinds due to the strength of the dollar relative to 2021.
We expect to deliver revenue between $4.7 billion-$4.8 billion in 2022 and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $2.5 billion. Given the tightening supply environment, we expect flat cash renewal rates in 2022, up from slightly negative in 2021. We expect overall portfolio occupancy to remain within the current range despite the significant new capacity scheduled to come online during the year, in addition to the embedded lease of potential within the Teraco portfolio. We are off to a great start on our financing plans for the year with a highly successful EUR 750 million bond offering in early January of 10.5-year paper at 1 3/8% coupon.
Finally, we expect to raise $500 million-$1 billion from capital recycling, whether through contributions to Digital Core REIT, non-core asset sales to third parties, or a combination of both. In terms of the quarterly dividend, the distribution policy is ultimately a board-level decision. Given the continued growth in our cash flows and taxable income, we would expect to see continued growth in the per share dividend, just as we have had each and every year since our IPO in 2004. Last but certainly not least, let's turn to the balance sheet on page 12. As of year-end, our reported leverage ratio stood at 6.1x , while fixed charge coverage was 5.4x .
Pro forma for settlement of the $1 billion September forward equity offering, leverage drops to 5.7x , while fixed charge coverage also improves to 5.7 x. We continue to execute on our financial strategy of maximizing the menu of available capital options while minimizing the related costs and extending the duration of our liabilities to match our long-lived assets. As Bill previously mentioned, we recast our credit facility during the fourth quarter, upsizing from $2.35 billion to $3 billion, extending the maturity by three years and tightening pricing by 5 basis points. We also incorporated a sustainability-linked pricing component subject to adjustment based on annual performance targets, further demonstrating our commitment to sustainable business practices.
Subsequent to quarter- end, we raised approximately EUR 850 million from the 10.5-year euro bonds at 1.375%, and we used a portion of the proceeds to redeem all $450 million of our outstanding 4.75% US dollar bonds due 2025. This successful execution against our financing strategy reflects the strength of our global platform, which provides access to the full menu of public as well as private capital, sets us apart from our peers, and enables us to prudently fund our growth. As you can see from the chart on page 13, our weighted average debt maturity is over six years, and our weighted average coupon is just over 2%.
A little over three-quarters of our debt is non-U.S. dollar-denominated, reflecting the growth of our global platform while also acting as a natural FX hedge for our investments outside the U.S. 94% of our debt is fixed rate, guarding against a rising rate environment, and 99% of our debt is unsecured, providing the greatest flexibility for capital recycling. Finally, as you can see from the left side of page 13, we have a clear runway with nominal near-term debt maturities and no bar too tall in the out years. Our balance sheet is poised to weather a storm, but also positioned to fuel growth opportunities for our customers around the globe, consistent with our long-term financing strategy. This concludes our prepared remarks, and now we'd be pleased to take your questions. Operator, would you please begin the Q&A session?
We will now begin the question- and- answer session. As a reminder, participants will be limited to one question and one follow-up. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the key. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question will come from Jon Atkin of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Thanks. I wondered if you could talk a little bit about supply chain. Last call you talked about kind of on time and on budget in terms of delivery of Turn-Key inventory. Any update on that? Did that play a role in the slightly more elongated commencement timeframe associated with your leasing of 14 months, compared to what you've done in the past?
Thanks, Jon. We are seeing some effects on the supply chain. You know, clearly, most of the equipment is strained in terms of availability, including data center infrastructure, servers, and network gear. Shortages in things like chips and fans are impacting many industries, not just ours. Our VMI program, the Vendor Managed Inventory program, utilizes our knowledge and market weight to overcome some of these disruptions. I believe that we're the gold standard for managing vendors and for forecasting, and this gives us priority for production slots with our suppliers. This program has allowed us to reduce lead times by an average of 70% versus standard. We increased the VMI pool when COVID hit, so I think we're pretty well prepared for the current disruptions.
We're evaluating the program to expand it even further to better support our programs. Steel, aluminum, and copper is also rising, which affects some fit out, like cages and cabinets. This really only comes into play, though, for, like, projects that are scheduled for completion in the next six to 12 months. In those cases, we're working closely with our customers to order gear early to lock in the pricing and avoid any shipment delays. Let me hand it over to Andy to address the relationship to delay in construction and anything else that he might wanna add.
Sure. I think we'll cover it. Just on the Jon, the elongated book-to-build or timeline, which had nothing really to do with supply chain. Two factors there. One, you can see in the Americas region, we did a power-based shell deal. Obviously a longer lead time to develop that, to bring that online. In Europe, where we had the concentration of our larger deals, obviously a standout quarter for EMEA across the board. Some of the plus megawatt deals were rather large in size and takedowns, and I think there's a project or two where we're literally at land state, and the customers are looking to really just book that future runway for growth.
That was kind of what drove the overall timeline out for sign to commence.
Then maybe more broadly, I wondered if you could maybe comment on the willingness to flex your CapEx budget to a higher level. You know, you accelerated compared to last year, but given all the demand that's out there and all the aggressive investments by some of your peers, in order to maintain your share, what is your thought about flexing the CapEx budget higher and any kind of, you know, updated thoughts on financing mix as to how you might do that? It seems like that wouldn't really affect 2022 CapEx, but further out, any kind of broad thoughts on that would be appreciated.
Sure. We finished 2021 at south of $2.2 billion of development CapEx or so. Our guidance range is a step up of $2.3 billion-$2.5 billion of CapEx. If you can just look at our press release throughout the year, we've been opening new markets, expanding our addressable market, building out the pipeline from land to shells, to finished suites, to colo, and to activity inventory. I don't think we're looking to change our posture. We really go market by market supply demand view, and we think we're positioning ahead of our competitors. I don't think there's a really necessary reactionary flex needed into our business.
If the opportunity presents itself, we look at that and we'll make those investments. As I mentioned in my prepared remarks, we've got diverse menu of capital sources to fuel our growth.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Michael Rollins of Citi. Please go ahead.
Thanks, good afternoon. I was curious first if you can unpack the guidance for the same-store cash NOI growth of down 2.5%-3.5%, maybe some of the puts and takes in there and how that might play out over the course of the year. Then I can share the follow-up after this one.
Sure. Thanks, Michael. Just a quick backdrop on same-capital. Last year, we guided slightly negative on same-capital, and we came in at 4.4% as same-capital cash NOI negative. This was slightly worse than the year prior. As I mentioned, that was a relatively small subset of the pool that's reported in 2021. You flip to 2022, you call it almost 80% of our company is in that pool with the addition of Westin Building, Interxion, Lamda Hellix, and Altus IT in Croatia. You get a much larger sample set, and an improving complexion. From - 4.4%, we guided to - 3% at the midpoint.
It's really being impacted by two elements. One, currency. We hedge through the balance sheet, so all the currency fluctuations are hitting that pool. If you can look at that on a constant currency, you're probably closer to -1%. And then, if you peel back the onion on that, it's really strong positives, several percent like 3% or so, in that APAC. Close to flat in EMEA due to the utilities, it's being elevated. The negative contribution largely focused in the Americas region, where we are getting hit by a what looks like it'll be a property tax increase that's gonna hit us in that year. Or excuse me, in 2022, but not continue in 2023 and beyond.
The major driver of still not being more firmly into positive, although improving, really is downtime for re-leasing of some of the larger non-retentions. We've been working away at that and making good activity actually re-leasing it, and then moving those customers into that space. It just takes time. Not because of supply chain bottlenecks, more of that if a 15 MW customer leaves, and a new 5 MW customer refills the refurbs, the new PDUs, et cetera. It just takes time. For those chunky deals, you lose a month or two of rent in a year. That's just it. It won't flow through until you get to 2023. Net-net, not in positive territory firmly on a reported basis yet, but heading that way.
Just to follow- up on some comments that you and the team have provided earlier on just pricing. Can you give us an update on the pricing strategy, the opportunities to leverage price, whether it's because of the inflationary backdrop or, you know, some of the other macro factors that you're dealing with? Then, you know, how that would affect the financial performance over time.
Sure. I mean, pricing from two lenses, obviously you saw in the guidance. We're guiding towards flat re-leasing spreads on our renewals for 2020. That's not new news. We've been mentioning that we've been working our way into that positive territory, partly due to mix of expirations, but certainly I would say pricing related. Then also call it pricing on new deals. Holistically, I think our supply chain and design and construction team has done a really good job insulating us, given our scale, our consistency in market. I don't think that's industry-wide. If you're a newer, smaller, more fledgling or regional competitor, that's creating disruptions from an inflation standpoint.
There's just overall strains on delivery of capacity, whether it's moratoriums in certain countries or the ability to deliver power. All these elements, I'd say add up together to, I think, be an incremental benefit to our value proposition to our customer of having this incumbent platform of 26 countries and 50 metros with runway for growth, that the pricing pendulum feels like it's continuing to slowly swing, more and more in our favor.
The next question comes from Eric Luebchow of Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.
Great. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to talk about the strength you had in the less than 1 MW category. Maybe you could break down where you're seeing the most success, whether it's traditional Enterprise, you know, smaller Hyperscale edge nodes. Do you think that steady improvement you've had is sustainable going forward? And then, you know, my second question was on the asset disposition front. Andy, I think in the past you've said you don't have a lot left to do on non-core. Should we assume that you'll have a heavier weighting towards S-REIT contributions throughout the course of the year?
Related to that, you know, where do you think your leverage slightly north of 6x, should we expect it to remain elevated or are you looking to, you know, drive that down with the Teraco financing and potentially other asset sales? Thanks.
Well, I'll have Corey start us off on the Enterprise less than megawatt interconnection category, and then I can fill in any factoids and talk about sourcing uses on your second question.
Yeah. Thanks, Eric, for the question. I'll tell you that we're really happy and feel good about the healthy demand that we're getting out of sub-1 MW space. You've seen us be consistent about kind of where we're growing that and how it's been building. We mentioned the Enterprise demand and just where it's coming across. It's coming across from a lot of our customers trying to take advantage of Hybrid IT environments, and so we're seeing that come across across the board, across the globe. We'd have really strong demand and pipeline, and the nice thing about it is it's coming from an enterprise perspective for us. 2/3 of that pipeline is coming through as Enterprise. We're also getting good channel progress from it.
From a sub-1 MW perspective, is it sustainable? Is it something that we're gonna continue? I think you're gonna see it continue. We're happy with where we're seeing the demand across all regions and coming through the channel, specifically and then also enterprises. We're happy about where that is, and I think it's gonna continue.
Just to add a couple more regional tidbits, Eric. So EMEA was an absolute standout for the less than a megawatt, as you saw in the numbers. Frankfurt, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Marseille, big contributors. Over half our new logos actually came out of that region. In the Americas, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta were the top markets. Singapore is obviously the standout in APAC. You Eric, do you mind just repeating the second part of your question about the sources and use? I know I heard the first part about just non-core versus core contribution to the S-REIT. What was the second part of your question?
Just how we should think about your leverage throughout the year. You're a little above 6x. I know you have the equity forward, you have the Teraco financing. Just how we should think about the cadence of leverage this year, that'd be helpful. Thanks.
Sure. As you see in the guidance table, we've put about $500 million- $1 billion of call it capital recycling, which would be both of these categories. We ended the year with a really one-off asset for $60 million that'll be likely redeveloped into a residential project in San Jose. There are a call it a short list we're whittling down of incremental non-core dispositions that could happen during the year. There'll be a piece of that, and then I think looking for incremental contributions to Digital Core REIT would probably be a larger segment of that source of capital.
That's obviously been a great success. As John Stewart after 32 earnings calls hung up the HP 12C is now looking to grow that vehicle. In terms of funding for the year, we finished out the year with about almost $1 billion of proceeds if you include that one-off asset plus Digital Core REIT in December. That all up put the balance sheet 12/31 with $140-ish million in cash, $400 million drawn on a $3.3 billion credit facility. We got lucky and beat the rate hike with a EUR 850 million bond beginning of the year. That's probably an incremental $500 million of proceeds. We still have the $1 billion undrawn forward that we'll take down.
Those combinations of sources and uses will essentially fund the closing of the $1.7 billion purchase of Teraco. Those incremental non-core dispositions or incremental contributions in the back half of the year will be, call it, the replenishing of the capital stack. We'll look to leverage, to call it, stay at, to move more in line with our targeted leverage levels, below 6x for sure, as we move through the year.
Great. Thank you.
The next question comes from Simon Flannery of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Thank you very much. Good evening. Andy, just wanted to continue on the Digital Core REIT. How should we think about what to expect there for 2022? Is this gonna be something where it'll potentially do more deals with you? How are those? Is it really North America focused today, and in the near term, or could we see assets from Europe or elsewhere go in there? You mentioned the stock price appreciation. Is there any magic, is 35% a magic number in terms of your stake, or could you use that as a source of funding as well to take your stake down, in the vehicle? Thanks.
Yeah. This was essentially an evolution of our capital sources here that date back to I think probably the origins when Bill created the Prudential JV that just actually ran its course, and we recognized and promoted in the fall a perpetual externally managed public vehicle with a global mandate, although originally a North America portfolio. Over time, I would expect it to through contributions of assets from Digital Realty, and it can also acquire third-party assets, diversify its portfolio geographically, but really with core assets, data centers that Digital Realty believes in for the long run that have really long-term weighted average lease terms, high occupancies, core to our strategy.
We don't have a set exact dollar amount or time of 2022 where we're looking to do a contribution. We'll work collaboratively with John and his team to position that at the right time for Digital Core REIT and its shareholders and Digital Realty's funding plans. I would think it will diversify over time and continue to scale, and it's been well received to date, and I think that we'll be able to build upon that success.
Your 35% stake?
I'm sorry. There's no magic to that. That was really just a product of the size initial portfolio, the conservative leverage we put on the vehicle day one and a modest IPO size. The underwriters lockup technically expires in the next several months. It's right around the corner. We have no interest to sell down. We can sell down if we want to. More than likely over time, I could see us still being diluted down as Digital Core REIT buys for cash more assets and Digital Realty makes room for incremental investors, both institutional and retail, to participate in the growth of the vehicle.
Great. Thank you.
The next question comes from Eric Rasmussen of Stifel. Please go ahead.
Yeah, thanks for taking the questions. You know, new logos were quite strong. I think you highlighted near record in the quarter. Maybe just talk about what's behind the success there, and then maybe do you see that momentum sustaining into the new year?
First off, thanks for the question, and also thanks for just the acknowledgement of the success we're having around new logos. Second highest quarter in new logos yet. Our highest year in new logos at 480. It's really with customers coming to a Hybrid IT and a data-centric kind of mindset around what they're gonna do. That's what we're seeing come through on the new logos. We've had a lot of customers now picking us consistently and making those decisions on it. Where we've seen kind of an outside growth from the new logos is around our channel.
We went from channel sales of 15% up to s orry, from 10% in 2020 to 15% in 2021, but the new logos we're getting are close to 20%-25% on a quarterly basis from the channel. When you ask where it's coming from, it's coming across the whole globe. You also think through our exports. We mentioned that 30% of our export business or 30% of our business is going export, meaning across regions and landing in the EMEA at 60%. Really good progress across the globe on new logos, supported by a strong success with the channel, and I think we're gonna see that continue as well. Thanks for the question, Eric.
Great. Maybe just my follow-up that you obviously Hyperscale was strong. Maybe talk about the types of Hyperscale as you're seeing. You know, is there a shift in the customer makeup? You know, what's driving that demand?
I would maybe go region by region really quickly. I just saw there wasn't a lot of activity in APAC this particular quarter, but we had great 2021 overall in that region across all product types, certainly including Hyperscale, and we're seeing significant continued and really excited with the introduction of Seoul 1, which we just opened up, as well as significant activity across the Japanese market. In EMEA, we had four of the five top CSPs all sign new business with us during the quarter. A lot of activity in Frankfurt, both in the east with the Legacy Interxion Campus and the west with the Legacy Digital Campus. Zürich, Marseille, Madrid, and Paris were also contributors as well as Amsterdam.
In North America, in the, I would say, the social media category had been a contributor. Ashburn was, as was a, probably the standout for the quarter, where we've remained incredibly tight during the recovering market, and continue to see strong demand.
The next question comes from David Barden of Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Thanks so much for taking the questions. I have two if I could please. One was, Andy, you talked about co-investment with the Digital Core REIT, and I'm wondering now, given, I think we're looking at about a 3.7 cap rate implied on the market cap now, you know, whether this affects how you guys think about mergers and acquisitions, and we've seen a lot of partnership models emerge across all sorts of digital infrastructure asset classes. I'd be interested in kind of hearing a little bit more about what you meant by that. Bill, you know, look, I'm a longtime listener, first time caller. You know, it's not gone unnoticed that, you know, John is taking over as CEO of Digital Core REIT. Andy's become president. You've moved to Austin.
I mean, we're all big fans of what you've done. What are we? Should we be expecting something? I'd love to hear your thoughts on succession right now. Thank you.
Hey, David, it's Greg Wright. Let me take the first question, your question with respect to the S-REIT and, you know, how we think about it in terms of our M&A strategy. I mean, look, I think when you look at the mandate that John and his team have for that vehicle, it's clearly, you know, it's a yield driven vehicle. You obviously reassess that cost of capital for that vehicle like we do Digital Realty standalone. You know, those assets that are gonna go into that, they're not gonna be development. You know, you've heard John's pitch in terms of the types of assets they're looking for to put into that vehicle.
Well, as we do, if you know, if we do future M&A or anything like that, and there happens to be those kinds of assets, they will be a natural home for that. Now, we obviously have a partner to pursue those transactions simultaneously and be able to bifurcate the assets and to get the best cost of capital. That's how we think about it from an M&A standpoint. In terms of cost of capital, you know, we still go back. We do our underwrites. You know, we're gonna go out and do DCFs and take a look at the projections and take a look at the risk of the asset, and we're gonna price it accordingly. You know, obviously having a vehicle that's got a better cost of capital is helpful.
That's generally the approach we'll use for M&A.
The only thing I would add to that question, John, excuse me, David, was, Singapore is opening up its moratorium in a very rational, prudent way, now with the development of, call it, three new data center locations. I can't think of a better partner to be one of the three given our experience in this business, 4,000 global customers, leadership and sustainability, experience in region. Last but not least, having a partner, Digital Core REIT, listed on the Singapore Exchange, that could be an eventual owner of that asset, allow all the citizens of Singapore, to participate in the digital transformation of that country and the region. That's a unique incremental attribute that could play in the future.
Relative to the move to Austin, I am not the only person who has moved to Austin. We moved the corporate headquarters to Austin January of last year, and I'm surrounded by people who have also moved to Austin. On my right is my Chief of Staff, Bill Bradley. On my left is my Chief Investment Officer, Greg Wright. I'm looking down the table here at our Chief Operating Officer, Erich Sanchack. We have quite a few people who have moved. Andy Power is planning to move at the end of the year. This is the corporate headquarters. We made a conscious decision to leave California for a number of reasons. I think we've articulated that. We're gonna be moving our staffs out of California and New York. We've announced that. We have downsized in California.
Our office is there. We've moved from Four Embarcadero Center up the block to space on California Street, and we're gonna be downsizing in New York as well. There's nothing about this move to Austin that is related to succession. Relative to the movement of Andy into the President slot, I think that's your question. My goal and the goal of the board is to try to give our top-performing executives as much experience and different experience as we possibly can. This gives Andy an opportunity to spend time in operations as well as working with Chris Sharp on the networking side, the product development side, the innovation side.
You know, we have a number of very capable executives that work for this company that report to me, and I think many of them are potential candidates to succeed me. My obligation to the board is to make sure that they have choices, and I'm trying to provide for that. When the time is right for me to move into retirement, I'd like our Board to be able to look at a number of potential candidates inside the company and potentially consider candidates outside the company as well. I have no plans to step down at any point in the near future. I like what I do.
Thanks.
I think we're pretty good at it.
The next question comes from Brendan Lynch of Barclays. Please go ahead.
Great. Thanks for taking my question. Maybe this one is for Chris. With your growing pool of colo assets, do you have any interest in creating an internal software-defined network? If so, what would that entail, and what competitive advantages would that provide to you?
Yeah, no. Thanks, Brendan. I appreciate the question. Absolutely, right? That's what the customers are looking for. You know, I just wanna go back a little bit on what Eric had asked Corey on what's driving that sub-1 MW. It's a sweet spot where customers are starting to outgrow colo, so it's very beneficial to our asset class to be able to support that growing need and allow them to land and expand even beyond, you know, the 1 MW and start to go to more markets. That all requires an SDN, just the software-defined networking for the broader group, that capability to tie it all together.
One of the things you're gonna hear about later in the year is we are absolutely bringing to market one of two platforms in the world that is purpose-built for orchestrating at a higher level that type of capability on our customer behalf, right? I'll just impress upon everybody, it's not improving on a 10-year-old product. It's definitely purpose-built. At the core of that is enhancing our customer experience, where we're removing that technical complexity that a lot of customers are impacted by around interconnection and making it easier for them to, you know, procure and deploy in all of these locations. That's why that new logo growth is starting to grow at record numbers.
You'll see that continually feed off of itself because they're getting a big benefit out of the community of interest that's being created around the globe. Again, at the end of the day, it's about open access and unfettered customer experience, which-
Go ahead.
Hey, guys. Thanks for squeezing me in. I'll keep this brief. Maybe two for Andy. First off, the 2022 guide, can you quantify what's embedded in there, from Teraco? Just thinking about revenue, EBITDA, and Core FFO. Then secondly, maybe dovetailing on that, typically you'll give some directional color on how to think about forward quarter, Core FFO. I'm just wondering if there are any puts and takes for 1Q, Core FFO per share that you would flag, to be mindful of. Thanks.
Just working backwards. I don't think we have like our famous bar charts without numbers on them for you in terms of weighted distribution. We do have a pretty decent moving part here with the timing of Teraco, which and I can't remember if Greg mentioned this yet, but I mean, we're working through the closing conditions and really the process for call it competition committee review. It feels like it's gonna happen at call it the early, very early second quarter to a couple months into second quarter timeframe. That does put a little bit of puts and takes from a quarterly blend. It is, just to confirm, the dilution from Teraco is included in our guidance table in the sup.
At the bottom line, our midpoint is call it growing call it 5%, which is about 100 basis points increase from our guidance a year ago, which we did beat by 140 basis points. We also are absorbing call it 100-200 basis points of FX headwinds. If you normalize for those items, you're call it close to the 6.5% call it Core FFO per share growth. The components of Teraco, I would call it ballpark for a rough swag at a partial year contribution of revenue and a EBITDA basis call it $100-ish of revenue and $70-ish of EBITDA contribution, rough swags.
Just a reminder, a data point, our year-over-year revenue and EBITDA growth is deflated when you just look at our reported financials. Remember that we had a PPA and a settlement and promote in 2021. That plus FX puts you at, call it, 9.3% growth, 150 basis points higher on the revenue standpoint from a constant currency basis.
That's great. Thank you.
That concludes the question and answer portion of today's call. I'd now like to turn the call back over to CEO, Bill Stein.
Whether it be uninterrupted performance during a record Texas ice storm or on-time delivery of new capacity despite a global pandemic and the resulting strain on global supply chains. Our customers trust us with mission-critical applications, and Digital delivers. We're expanding our global platform, establishing Digital Realty as the unquestioned leading colocation and interconnection provider in Africa, and positioning PlatformDIGITAL at key points of interconnection and subsea cable landing stations. We announced our expansion into India together with our partner, Brookfield, and we invested in AtlasEdge, gaining exposure to the European Edge market, all while investing over $2 billion in organic development around the world. We posted solid financial results in Core FFO, revenue, and Adjusted EBITDA above the high end of our initial guidance. Our 2022 guidance represents mid-single-digit growth in Core FFO per share, despite absorbing headwinds from FX, Teraco, and capital recycling.
Constant currency guidance for FFO, if we were to exclude Teraco, would be in high- single digits. Last but not least, we further strengthened our balance sheet, raising $1 billion of proceeds from asset sales, all the while positioning ourselves as the leading global provider of the full spectrum of data center solutions. I'd like to once again thank the Digital Realty frontline team members in critical data center facility roles who have kept the digital world turning. I hope that all of you stay safe and healthy, and we hope to see many of you in person again soon. Thank you.
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