WASHINGTON, May 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE:DFT, news, filings) today announced that the Company exercised the accordion feature on its unsecured revolving credit facility, increasing the total commitment under the facility from $400 million to $560 million. The Company also amended the facility to expand the accordion feature to provide the Company with the option to increase the total commitment to $800 million, if one or more lenders commit to being a lender for the additional amount and certain other customary conditions are met. The interest rate has been reduced 30 basis points from LIBOR + 1.85% to LIBOR + 1.55% and the unused fee decreased 10 basis points. The facility termination date has been extended from March 2016 to May 2018 and still includes a one-year extension option. All other key terms of the credit facility remain in full force and effect. As of the date of this release, there have been no borrowings under this facility.
The Company also decreased the interest rate on its $115 million ACC3 Term loan 30 basis points from LIBOR + 1.85% to LIBOR + 1.55%. All other key terms of the secured loan remain in full force and effect.
“We are pleased to have increased the facility, adding new lenders to the pool, and decreased the interest rates on both the credit facility and secured loan,” said Jeffrey H. Foster, Chief Financial Officer of the Company. “This expanded facility provides us with additional capacity to fully fund our development projects in Ashburn, Virginia, Elk Grove Village, Illinois and Santa Clara, CA. We believe that, with these additional commitments and the reduction in interest rates under these loans, we will be able to complete the development of SC1 and the initial phases of ACC7 and CH2 with our existing sources of low cost capital and the free cash flow that we expect to generate from our operations, without having to issue any equity.”
Additionally, the Company has executed a five year pre-lease at SC1 Phase IIA for 2.5 megawatts and 11,037 computer room square feet. This lease results in SC1 Phase IIA being 77% pre-leased on a critical load basis and 75% pre-leased on a square feet basis. SC1 Phase IIA is scheduled to open later this month. This lease is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2014.
About DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc.
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT) is a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, large multi-tenanted wholesale data centers. The Company’s facilities are designed to offer highly specialized, efficient and safe computing environments in a low-cost operating model. The Company’s customers outsource their mission critical applications and include national and international enterprises across numerous industries, such as technology, Internet content providers, media, communications, cloud-based, healthcare and financial services. The Company’s ten data centers are located in four major U.S. markets, which total 2.5 million gross square feet and 218 megawatts of available critical load to power the servers and computing equipment of its customers. DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT) is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.dft.com.
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