Digital Realty expands DRIL network to Singapore, Japan and London

Digital Realty expanded its DRIL network into Singapore, Japan and London to provide real-world environments where customers and partners could test and optimize next generation infrastructure.

The company said the launch supported Singapore, Japan and the United Kingdom’s continued leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In Singapore, AI adoption was said to be driving growth in the nation’s digital economy, which accounts for 18.6% of total GDP. Japan was said to plan to invest 10 trillion yen or more in the semiconductor and AI sectors by 2030. The UK was cited as having more than 5,800 AI companies, sector revenue of £23.9 billion and AI-generated GVA of £11.8 billion.

The Singapore DRIL was described as a digital hub for customers, partners and research institutions to develop, test and deploy AI and hybrid cloud solutions. The Japan DRIL was located at the company’s NRT12 data center in Greater Tokyo and included 20 racks with Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) to support AI and High performance computing (HPC) use cases. The London DRIL provided a dedicated environment to validate AI and hybrid cloud deployments.

The expansion followed the initial DRIL facility launched in Northern Virginia in September 2025, which the company said had received acclaim from enterprise customers. The global DRIL network supported an ecosystem that included AMD, Cisco and Lenovo. The company said the labs enabled customers and partners to test performance, optimize configurations and validate AI and hybrid cloud deployments before full-scale implementation.

“Sustaining rapidly expanding digital economies requires innovation ecosystems built on infrastructure that is not only AI-ready, but also efficient, resilient, and trusted,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Digital Realty.

The company described plans for the three DRIL locations to be available for customers and partners this year.