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Digital Realty Trust, Inc., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 3/16/23 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 3/16/23, at 4:19pm ET   ·   For:  3/16/23   ·   Accession #:  1193125-23-72616   ·   File #s:  0-54023, 1-32336

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 3/16/23  Digital Realty Trust, Inc.        8-K:8,9     3/16/23   14:342K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
          Digital Realty Trust, L.P.

Current Report   —   Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     44K 
 2: EX-1.1      Underwriting Agreement or Conflict Minerals Report  HTML     84K 
 3: EX-5.1      Opinion of Counsel re: Legality                     HTML     17K 
 9: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     59K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- d447587d8k_htm                      XML     26K 
11: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      8K 
 5: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- dlr-20230316_cal                XML      7K 
 6: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- dlr-20230316_def                 XML     47K 
 7: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- dlr-20230316_lab                      XML     76K 
 8: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- dlr-20230316_pre               XML     46K 
 4: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- dlr-20230316                          XSD     20K 
13: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               16±    24K 
14: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-23-072616-xbrl      Zip     33K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — dlr-20230316_def

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