Digital Realty Acquires Telepoint for Bulgarian Data Centres

Digital Realty, one of the world's largest cloud-and carrier-neutral data centre platforms, has announced its entry into the Bulgarian market through its acquisition of Telepoint, a leading local data centre and interconnection provider located in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Digital Realty has more than 300 data centre locations and more than 500 available clouds, but its entry into Sofia in Bulgaria is a move into one of Southeast Europe's most important emerging interconnection hubs.

The transition of acquiring Telepoint means Digital Realty has gained two more data centres in Sofia, with more than 110 unique network service providers and multiple cloud-on ramp deployments.

Sofia: a leading market for connectivity

The city of Sofia hosts more than 340 network points of presence and close to 200 unique networks, which places it among the leading Southeast European markets for international internet bandwidth and traffic growth.

It offers high-speed connectivity and carrier-neutral services to the EU, Turkey and the Caucasus region.

These characteristics attract providers serving Southeast Europe by supporting private interconnection and low-latency data exchange, which are central to what customers look for in data centres.

Paula Cogan, Managing Director and Head of EMEA at Digital Realty, says: “Sofia is a thriving hub for connectivity in Southeast Europe.

“Bringing Bulgaria into our global portfolio allows us to offer customers even more ways to connect, collaborate and scale their businesses. 

“This expansion strengthens and complements our interconnection platform and helps customers reach end users faster, while tapping into a market that's growing rapidly and attracting innovation.”

Growing investment into the Balkans

Digital Realty already has connectivity presence in Greek and Croatia regions including Athens, Heraklion, and Zagreb, and Sofia's addition in Bulgaria enriches this presence in the region.

The city acts as a distribution point for traffic flows in Southeast Europe arriving via new subsea cable systems in Greece, which are undersea fibre-optic systems that carry the majority of international internet traffic between continents. 

As traffic flows from these landing points into mainland Europe, Sofia functions as the primary interconnection hub for onward distribution across Southeast Europe. Increasing volumes of traffic from the Middle East and Asia route terrestrially into the Bulgarian capital, reinforcing its position as a strategic gateway.

The proximity to major fibre routes and cable landing stations increases the attractiveness of facilities to hyperscale cloud providers and enterprise customers requiring resilient and low-latency connectivity.

In a post on LinkedIn, Telepoint said: “By joining forces with Digital Realty, we are strengthening Sofia's role as a key connectivity hub within Eastern Mediterranean, unlocking new global opportunities for our customers and partners.

“Together with Digital Realty, we are accelerating Sofia's position as a regional gateway connecting Southeast Europe to the world while continuing to serve the local market with the same expertise, reliability, and leadership that defined Telepoint.”

PlatformDIGITAL expansion in Southeast Europe

Digital Realty's acquisition of Telepoint also strengthens PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty's global data centre pltaform. PlatformDIGITAL is designed to provide consistent infrastructure and interconnection capabilities across markets, which enables customers to deploy workloads in different locations under a unified operating model.

Digital Realty is offering customers direct access to one of Southeast Europe's established interconnection communities by bringing a dense, neutral interconnection ecosystem into its portfolio, and carrier-neutral facilities allow multiple network providers to operate within the same building without exclusivity. 

As AI adoption accelerates across Europe and the Middle East, Sofia's position along key terrestrial and subsea routes supports efficient data movement and cross-border inference workloads. Inference means the stage where trained AI models process new data to generate outputs.

The addition of Sofia to Digital Realty's network enables customers to place compute and storage capacity within reach of regional users while maintaining connectivity to Western Europe and beyond.

Through the acquisition of Telepoint, the company embeds itself in a market defined by network density, international bandwidth and strategic geography.