Digital Realty announced the expansion of its Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) into Singapore, Japan and London. This marks the first expansion of the company's global DRIL network into Asia Pacific and Europe, following the successful launch of the inaugural DRIL facility in Northern Virginia in September 2025, which has received acclaim from enterprise customers. The new DRIL locations will offer ecosystem of partners and customers fully supported, real-world testing environments where they can bring their own workloads or use pre-configured infrastructure to validate AI and hybrid cloud deployments before scaling'.
This is especially important as AI adoption increases and infrastructure readiness has emerged as a critical barrier to moving from experimentation to production at scale. All three are expected to be available for use by customers and partners this year. The launch represents Digital Realty's commitment to support Singapore, Japan and the UK's continued leadership in AI innovation.
In Singapore, AI adoption is driving continued growth in the nation's digital economy, which now accounts for 18.6% of total GDP. Japanpl plans to invest JPY 10 trillion or more in the semiconductor and AI sectors by 2030. Meanwhile, the UK's AI sector continues to accelerate, with more than 5,800 AI companies now operating nationwide, sector revenue reaching PS23.9 billion and AI generating PS11.8 billion in GVA.
Enabling next-generation AI infrastructure: The Singapore DRIL is designed to serve as a digital innovation hub, bringing together local customers, partners, and research institutions with global technology providers and industry participants seeking to develop, test and deploy AI and hybrid cloud solutions in Singapore. In Japan, the DRIL will be located at the company's NRT12 data center in the Greater Tokyo area. Designed to support advanced AI and high-performance computing use cases, it will feature 20 racks with direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities, enabling support for high-power-density workloads.
The DRIL in the UK will be in London, providing customers and partners with a dedicated environment to test and validate AI and hybrid cloud architectures before deploying at scale.
