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02/09/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 0297Y  Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC  02 September 2022

 

2 September 2022

 

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

("D9" or the "Company")

 

Dividend Declaration

 

The Board of Directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (ticker: DGI9) has
declared an interim dividend in respect of the period from 1 April 2022 to 30
June 2022 of 1.5 pence per Ordinary Share, payable on or around 30 September
2022 to holders of Ordinary Shares on the register on 16 September 2022. The
ex-dividend date will be 15 September 2022.

 

The Company is targeting an aggregate dividend of 6.0 pence per Ordinary Share
for the year ending 31 December 2022. (1)

 

Note:

(1) The target dividend is a target only and not a forecast. There can be no
assurance that the target will be met and it should not be taken as an
indication of the Company's expected or actual future results.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

      Triple Point Investment Management                               +44 (0) 20 7201 8989

      Thor Johnsen / Andre Karihaloo
      J.P. Morgan Cazenove                                            +44 (0) 20 7742 4000

      William Simmonds / Jérémie Birnbaum (Corporate Finance)

      James Bouverat / Liam MacDonald-Raggett (Sales)
      Akur Capital                                                    +44 (0) 20 7493 3631

      Tom Frost / Anthony Richardson / Siobhan Sergeant
      TI Consulting

      Mitch Barltrop / Gina Magnin                                    +44 (0) 7807 296 032

                                                                      +44 (0) 7815 585 751

                                                                      dgi9@fticonsulting.com

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

NOTES TO EDITORS:

 

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (DGI9) is an investment trust listed on the
London Stock Exchange with ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the
infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy:
digital infrastructure.

 

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple
Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority,
with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate and private credit,
while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's
Digital Infrastructure team has over US$ 300 billion in digital
infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global
tech and global telecoms companies.

 

The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable
Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase
connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital
infrastructure. The assets DGI9 invest in typically comprise scalable
platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data
centres, terrestrial fibre, and wireless networks.

 

From its IPO in March 2021 and four subsequent placings, DGI9 has raised total
equity of £905 million and a revolving credit facility of £375
million, and invested into the following data centres, subsea fibre and
wireless networks:

 

·     Aqua Comms, a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most
modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer
base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers (April
2021);

·   Verne Global, the leading Icelandic data centre platform, with 40MW of
high intensity computing solutions in operation or development, powered by
100% baseload renewable power (September 2021);

·     EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from
Europe to India (July 2021);

·     SeaEdge UK1, a data centre and landing station for the North Sea
Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network,
improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America
(December 2021);

·   Host Ireland, a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and
operates Fixed Wireless Access networks (April 2022);

·   Volta, a premier data centre based in central London, providing 6MW
retail co-location services (April 2022);

·   Ficolo, a leading Finnish data centre and cloud infrastructure
platform, with c.23MW of data centre capacity, powered by 100% renewable power
and distributing surplus heat to district heating networks (July 2022); and

·    Arqiva, the only national terrestrial television and radio
broadcasting network in the United Kingdom - providing data, network and
communications services, as well as a national IoT connectivity platform
(announced June 2022).

 

The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund
Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021.
It was admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the
Financial Conduct Authority and migrated to trading on the premium segment of
the Main Market on 30 August 2022.

 

For more information on the Investment Manager, please
visit www.triplepoint.co.uk (http://www.triplepoint.co.uk) . For more
information on the Company, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com
(http://www.d9infrastructure.com) .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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