Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) is a rare growth-stock real estate investment Ttust (REIT). REITs are required to pay out most of their net income as dividends, so they are rarely fast growers. Digital Realty's presence in the technology arena has helped it keep growing while also churning out a nice dividend for investors.

Here's the bull and bear case to give investors a picture of both Digital Realty's growth prospects and risks.

Kristi Waterworth(Bull Case): As we lead increasingly digital lives, companies like Digital Realty Trust, which primarily make their income off of renting out space on servers in data centers, are going to become even more important. Everything is online now, but where is online data stored? In a data center, maybe even one controlled by Digital Realty Trust.

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