Result of Annual General Meeting

Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

18 May 2023

 

18 May 2023

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 to 31 December 2022.	438,433,642	99.99	42,002	0.01	438,475,644	50.68	3,600
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy).	420,296,910	95.86	18,162,205	4.14	438,459,115	50.68	20,129
3	To re-elect Phil Jordan as a Director of the Company.	434,134,525	99.04	4,208,466	0.96	438,342,991	50.67	136,253
4	To re-elect Keith Mansfield as a Director of the Company.	438,192,599	99.97	150,392	0.03	438,342,991	50.67	136,253
5	To re-elect Charlotte Valeur as a Director of the Company.	434,150,950	99.04	4,192,041	0.96	438,342,991	50.67	136,253
6	To re-elect Lisa Harrington as a Director of the Company.	415,602,239	94.82	22,702,148	5.18	438,304,387	50.66	174,857
7	To re-elect Aaron Le Cornu as a Director of the Company.	438,192,024	99.97	150,967	0.03	438,342,991	50.67	136,253
8	To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company.	423,369,374	96.56	15,102,691	3.44	438,472,065	50.68	7,179
9	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration.	438,415,269	99.99	63,975	0.01	438,479,244	50.68	0
10	To authorise the Directors to declare and pay all dividends of the Company as interim dividends.	438,420,026	99.99	57,549	0.01	438,477,575	50.68	1,669
11	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	438,424,916	99.99	54,328	0.01	438,479,244	50.68	0

*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 18 May 2023, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 865,174,954 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 8 March 2023, 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:

Triple Point Investment Management   (Investment Manager)   Ben Beaton   Arnaud Jaguin	[phone]
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Joint Corporate Broker)    William Simmonds   Jérémie Birnbaum	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP (Joint Corporate Broker)   Luke Simpson   Liz Yong   Huw Jeremy	[phone]
FTI Consulting   Ed Berry        Mitch Barltrop   Maxime Lopes	[e-mail] [phone] [phone] [phone]

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

About Digital 9 Infrastructure plc:

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 Iceland, 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);

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

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

·     Verne Global Finland (previously 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);

·    Giggle, a revolutionary Fibre to the Home network providing affordable broadband to social housing in Glasgow (July 2022); and

·     Arqiva, the only UK 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 (October 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. For more information on the Company, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.

 

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