Rackspace Hosting Continues Expansion with New Data Center in Virginia

SAN ANTONIO -- February 11, 2009 — Rackspace® Hosting, (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced plans to begin operating a new data center facility in Ashburn, Virginia. Rackspace will lease 11,000 square feet of raised floor space from a subsidiary of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT) a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of wholesale data centers in the United States. Rackspace expects the new facility to come online in July 2009 and will be able to service its continued growth while providing additional geographic redundancy to new and existing customers.

Under terms of the agreement, Rackspace will utilize the raised floor square footage and available power from DuPont Fabros under a long-term lease. DuPont Fabros’ Ashburn facility maximizes operating efficiency through an enhanced power capacity and flexible design with N+2 redundancy on all major systems including heat rejection systems, generators and UPS systems. Rackspace believes that this lease with DuPont Fabros will enable it to serve customer demand more quickly and cost effectively than if Rackspace built its own facility.

“DuPont Fabros offers some of the leading data center facilities in the country with world-class operational and management practices,” said Randy Smith, director of real estate, Rackspace Hosting. “We chose to work with them for their unique ability to design a data center infrastructure that increases operational efficiencies and ultimate reliability for our customers. By leaving the infrastructure management to DuPont Fabros, we can be much more flexible and redeploy some resources so we can focus on continually delivering our customers Fanatical Support®.”

“Our data center philosophy is to design and develop highly efficient data centers with increased power densities and high reliability that provide an optimized solution for our tenants,” said Hossein Fateh, chief executive officer, DuPont Fabros Technology. “As the leader in the hosting space, Rackspace is committed to providing its customers with an excellent service experience and we believe a state-of-the-art data center is the foundation to a great customer experience.”

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