Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Hurricane Electric Expands Globally With Digital Realty to Help Customers Overcome Data Gravity Barriers With PlatformDIGITAL® January 12, 2021 GMT SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 12, 2021-- Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv4 and IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it will provide new high-speed IP transit for Digital Realty’s data centers in nine major global metros. The collaboration expands the global reach of PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data center platform which is purpose-designed to enable customers to scale digital business. ADVERTISEMENT Hurricane Electric has established points of presence (PoPs) at Digital Realty facilities in key global metros: Amsterdam, Ashburn, Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Zagreb, Croatia. According to Digital Realty’s Data Gravity Index DGx™ report, which uncovers the intensity and gravitational force of enterprise data growth, Data Gravity Intensity is expected to more than double annually across analyzed metros through 2024. The nine new cities are among a group of 53 metros that are experiencing the most dramatic increase in Data Gravity Intensity globally.