Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

AGM Information • May 23, 2022

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Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

23 May 2022

23 May 2022

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

("D9", the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc is pleased to announce that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and were passed by shareholders.

Resolutions 1 to 10 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolution 11 was proposed as a special resolution. The results of the poll were as follows:

Resolution		Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Total votes validly cast	Total votes cast as % of issued share capital	Votes Withheld*
1	To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the period from incorporation to 31 December 2021.	416,216,833	100.00	12,167	0.00	416,229,000	51.35	917
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy).	406,139,939	97.58	10,058,772	2.42	416,198,711	51.34	31,206
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	406,133,493	97.58	10,068,075	2.42	416,201,568	51.34	28,349
4	To re-elect Keith Mansfield as a Director of the Company.	416,178,050	99.99	41,647	0.01	416,219,697	51.35	10,220
5	To re-elect Charlotte Valeur as a Director of the Company.	416,203,625	100.00	16,072	0.00	416,219,697	51.35	10,220
6	To re-elect Lisa Harrington as a Director of the Company.	391,491,105	94.06	24,728,592	5.94	416,219,697	51.35	10,220
7	To re-elect Aaron Le Cornu as a Director of the Company.	416,192,450	99.99	27,247	0.01	416,219,697	51.35	10,220
8	To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company.	416,186,198	99.99	42,802	0.01	416,229,000	51.35	917
9	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration.	416,214,982	100.00	14,018	0.00	416,229,000	51.35	917
10	To authorise the Directors to declare and pay all dividends of the Company as interim dividends.	416,203,230	99.99	25,770	0.01	416,229,000	51.35	917
11	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	416,140,058	99.99	48,455	0.01	416,188,513	51.34	41,404

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.

Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at 23 May 2022, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 810,629,500 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.  

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 17 March 2022, a copy of which is available on the Company's website at www.d9infrastructure.com

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT

Triple Point Investment Management LLP (Investment Manager) Thor Johnsen Andre Karihaloo	+44 (0) 20 7201 8989
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Corporate Broker) William Simmonds Jérémie Birnbaum	+44 (0) 20 7742 4000
Akur Capital (Financial Adviser) Tom Frost Anthony Richardson Siobhan Sergeant	+44 (0) 20 7493 3631

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 £845 million and a revolving credit facility of £300 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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