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Equity And Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Net (Ownership Interest In The Operating Partnership) (Details)
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Equity and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]    
Partners' capital account units 135,793,668us-gaap_PartnersCapitalAccountUnits 135,626,255us-gaap_PartnersCapitalAccountUnits
Percentage of total 97.90%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits 97.80%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
Common units held by third parties    
Equity and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]    
Common units held by third parties 1,425,314dlr_PartnersCapitalAccountUnitsHeldByThirdParty
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_CommonUnitsHeldByThirdPartiesMember
1,463,814dlr_PartnersCapitalAccountUnitsHeldByThirdParty
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_CommonUnitsHeldByThirdPartiesMember
Percentage of total 1.00%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_CommonUnitsHeldByThirdPartiesMember
1.10%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_CommonUnitsHeldByThirdPartiesMember
Incentive Units Held By Employees And Directors    
Equity and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]    
Incentive units held by employees and directors 1,499,397dlr_PartnerscapitalAccountUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectors
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_IncentiveUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectorsMember
1,549,847dlr_PartnerscapitalAccountUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectors
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_IncentiveUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectorsMember
Percentage of total 1.10%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_IncentiveUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectorsMember
1.10%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_IncentiveUnitsHeldByEmployeesAndDirectorsMember
Noncontrolling Interests in Operating Partnership    
Equity and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]    
Partners' capital account units 138,718,379us-gaap_PartnersCapitalAccountUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_NoncontrollingInterestsInOperatingPartnershipMember
138,639,916us-gaap_PartnersCapitalAccountUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_NoncontrollingInterestsInOperatingPartnershipMember
Percentage of total 100.00%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_NoncontrollingInterestsInOperatingPartnershipMember
100.00%dlr_PercentageOfTotalUnits
/ us-gaap_StatementEquityComponentsAxis
= dlr_NoncontrollingInterestsInOperatingPartnershipMember