(Telecompaper) Digital Realty's Brazilian subsidiary Stellar Participacoes has agreed to acquire Ascenty, a Latin America data centre company from Brazil, from private equity group Great Hill Partners for USD 1.8 billion. Digital Realty will also give USD 425 million of capex to fund the completion of data centre development currently under construction and to build out additional capacity to meet near-term customer demand. That puts the total consideration for the company at USD 2.25 billion.