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Related Party Transactions	3 Months Ended
Related Party Transactions	Mar. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Related Party Transactions	Related Party Transactions The Company has a strategic partnership with GDS, a developer and operator of high-performance, large-scale data centers in the People's Republic of China. In connection with our investment in GDS, the Company entered into an agreement with GDS for the joint marketing of each company's data centers. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company did not incur any commission and referral charges payable to GDS. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company incurred $0.5 million of commissions and referral charges payable to GDS. The commission and referral charges were capitalized as deferred leasing costs and will be amortized over the terms of the respective customer leases. No significant referral expense was recognized by the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2020 or 2019. The Company has not recognized any referral revenue related to the agreement with GDS for the three months ended March 31, 2020 or 2019. See Note 7, Equity Investments for additional information related to our GDS investment.