Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC Dividend Declaration (5064M)

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RNS Number : 5064M

Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

24 May 2022

24 May 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 January 2022 to 31 March 2022 of 1.5 pence per Ordinary Share, payable on or around 30 June 2022 to holders of Ordinary Shares on the register on 6 June 2022. The ex-dividend date will be 1 June 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 ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT

 
Triple Point Investment Management 
 LLP 
 (Investment Manager) 
 Thor Johnsen 
 Andre Karihaloo                          [phone] 
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Corporate Broker) 
 William Simmonds 
 Jérémie Birnbaum               [phone] 
Akur Capital (Financial Adviser) 
 Tom Frost 
 Anthony Richardson 
 Siobhan Sergeant                         [phone] 
 

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

NOTES:

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9) 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 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 D9 invest in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre, and wireless networks.

With its IPO in March 2021 and three subsequent placings, D9 has raised total equity of GBP845 million and a revolving credit facility of GBP300 million and invested into 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); and

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

-- 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 (April 2022).

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. For more information, please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk .

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.

For more information, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com .

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