Technically, Digital Realty Trust puts its chips in real estate. The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns and leases more than 140 technology properties with more than 25.5 million sq. ft. of rentable space in metropolitan areas in the US, Europe, and Asia, including data communications hubs, electronic storage and processing centers, tech manufacturing facilities, and offices of tech companies. Digital Realty Trust focuses on hot tech markets such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, northern Virginia, Seattle, and California's San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley (its largest market). Others are in Western Europe, Australia, and Asia.