How Digital Realty and Nvidia are Powering Next-Gen AI

One of the leading providers of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, Digital Realty has announced a further partnership with Nvidia.

The new collaboration follows Jensen Huang's, Founder and CEO of Nvidia, unveiling of a new vision to build America’s AI infrastructure at Nvidia GTC in Washington. To advance design, the partnership with Digital Realty will focus on improving the design and distribution of next-generation AI infrastructure in Manassas, Digital Realty’s campus in North Virginia.

The update comes after Digital Realty’s announcement from September which highlights the launch of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and Digital Realty’s launch of the first Quantum-AI data centre in New York in collaboration with Nvidia.

The initiative is presented as a leading project within the UK–US technology trade partnership introduced by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Andy Power, President and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty, says: “Digital Realty’s mission has always been to enable the world’s most innovative technologies by providing secure, interconnected infrastructure at global scale.

“By working with OQC, we’re using Nvidia supercomputing to make quantum-AI directly accessible in one of the world’s most important data hubs - empowering enterprises and governments to unlock new levels of performance and resilience.”

A new AI factory

The site in Manassas is home to Nvidia’s AI Factory Research Centre, supporting many key initiatives like the Nvidia Omniverse DSX blueprint for AI factories and digital twin for gigascale AI facilities, application of advanced liquid cooling technologies and researching innovative approaches to power management and energy efficiency. 

The efforts are created with the intention to benefit the independent distribution and support practices which advance the wider industry.

Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, says: "The infrastructure requirements for AI are fundamentally different from traditional data centre workloads and meeting these demands requires deep collaboration between infrastructure providers and technology innovators.

"Our work with Nvidia represents a shared commitment to solving the complex technical challenges that enable AI deployment at scale, from advanced cooling solutions to power optimisation and network architecture."

Global infrastructure knowledge

With a multitude of global infrastructure expertise, Digital Realty addresses the challenges posed by AI workload deployment at large. 

Active engagement across multiple facilities and design initiatives allows the work to help define and develop new standards for AI-optimised data centre infrastructure. 

Digital Realty has an extensive portfolio which spans more than 300+ data centres across 6 countries like Australia, the United Kingdom and the Americas. In key hubs like Northern Virginia, the world's largest data centre market, it operates next-gen, AI-ready facilities built to handle the most demanding compute workloads.

The data centres combine high-density power, precision cooling and low-latency connectivity to support large-scale AI training, edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.

The company’s strategy goes beyond infrastructure. By partnering with leading cloud providers and technology innovators, like Nvidia, Digital Realty moulded, scalable solutions that adapt to evolving workload requirements all whilst maintaining the performance, reliability and sustainability that global enterprises depend on.

Writing on LinkedIn, Andy said: “It’s a venture that reflects our shared commitment to innovation, efficiency and scalability, delivering the digital foundations for AI on a global scale. 

“By pioneering new approaches in liquid cooling, energy optimisation and AI-ready architecture, we’re helping shape the future of how intelligent systems are built and deployed.

“It’s an exciting step forward for our customers, our industry and for a world in which AI is now taking centre stage.”