Digital Realty has acquired Telepoint, a Bulgarian colocation and interconnection provider, and with it two data centres in Sofia. The purchase is the company's first presence in Bulgaria and folds the sites into PlatformDIGITAL, its global data centre platform.
For a colocation buyer, the number the announcement leads with is interconnection density rather than floor space. Digital Realty says the acquired estate carries more than 110 unique network service providers and multiple cloud on-ramp deployments. Citing PeeringDB, it puts the wider Sofia market at more than 340 network points of presence and close to 200 unique networks.
What the release withholds is most of what a buyer would price against. There is no purchase price, no IT load in megawatts, no rack or cabinet count, no design density per rack, and no statement on whether existing Telepoint contracts, service levels and rates carry across to the new owner.
Data Center Dynamics names the two acquired sites as Telepoint Sofia Center and Telepoint Sofia East, both carrier-neutral colocation facilities, and reports that terms were not shared. It also reports that Telepoint runs a third facility in the town of Montana, and that whether that site forms part of the transaction is unclear. Telepoint's own website lists three data centres and more than 9,000 square metres of colocation space between them, so the unresolved site is not a rounding error.
Positioning is the argument made for the market itself. Digital Realty describes Sofia as the primary interconnection hub for onward distribution across Southeast Europe, fed by new subsea systems landing in Greece and by terrestrial routes carrying traffic from the Middle East and Asia, and says the market complements its operations in Athens, Heraklion and Zagreb.
AI is the stated reason for caring about the route. Digital Realty says Sofia's position along key terrestrial and subsea paths strengthens its role as a hub for AI infrastructure and supports cross-border inference workloads. No power density, no liquid-cooled hall and no named customer is attached to that claim, so on the published evidence it describes network transit rather than compute capacity.
“Sofia is a thriving hub for connectivity in Southeast Europe,” said Paula Cogan, Managing Director EMEA, Digital Realty. The release does not say when the sites move onto Digital Realty commercial terms, whether pricing changes for incumbent tenants, or what expansion capacity, if any, the two buildings hold.
Buyers weighing Sofia against Athens or Zagreb now have one operator behind all three, which shortens contracting but removes a competitive alternative from the shortlist. A disclosed megawatt figure and a plain statement on contract continuity would settle what the announcement leaves open, and neither is in it.
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