Tokyo: Digital Realty, a global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation, and interconnection solutions, announced that its upcoming NRT14 data centre in the Greater Tokyo area will be among the first facilities in Japan to achieve NVIDIA's DGX-Ready Data Center certification. The milestone reinforces Digital Realty's role as a strategic artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure partner for organisations scaling next-generation, high-density workloads across the region.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, customers will be able to run next-generation AI workloads with greater speed and efficiency by hosting NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), enabling faster time-to-insight, lower operational costs, and improved performance for demanding AI and analytics workloads. The certification was achieved by MC Digital Realty, Digital Realty's joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, and confirms that NRT14 meets NVIDIA certification requirements, including the ability to support high-density AI workloads of 100 kilowatts or more per rack.

According to NVIDIA, liquid-cooled Blackwell architectures can deliver up to 25 times greater energy efficiency compared with traditional air-cooled systems. The milestone also expands Digital Realty's collaboration with NVIDIA following the recent announcement of the NVIDIA AI Factory Research Center hosted at Digital Realty's Northern Virginia campus, extending the AI Factory partnership model to Asia Pacific through a globally consistent, high-density infrastructure platform.

Digital Realty currently operates certified data centre sites in more than 20 countries worldwide, including six across Asia Pacific. In 2023, its KIX13 facility in Osaka was certified as an NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center under the same programme.