Digital Realty, has announced the certification of its newest data center, KIX13, in Osaka, Japan, as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready. This certification is part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program and recognises KIX13’s ability to provide a dedicated and robust environment for deploying intensive computing systems at scale.

The NVIDIA DGX H100 is the fourth generation of NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure and is a key component of the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. It offers the computational power necessary for training advanced deep learning AI models, enabling enterprise customers to accelerate AI deployments and develop full-stack solutions. This allows for data localisation while meeting global coverage, capacity, and connectivity requirements.

Successful AI deployments depend on data centers that can provide high-performance cooling, layout, and connectivity to operate AI effectively. Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL community offers highly connected infrastructure, allowing customers to access large volumes of data. This enables them to run AI workloads in an NVIDIA-accelerated environment, solve complex computational problems, and overcome Data Gravity barriers. Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric platform streamlines the management of hybrid IT infrastructure and provides access to a growing community of partners for managed services on a centralised platform.

Digital Realty also provides precision-engineered power and cooling infrastructure to support high-power computing needs. Liquid cooling offers more efficient heat dissipation and becomes an attractive option for AI deployments at higher workload densities. The company’s expertise in data center engineering ensures a future-ready environment that can handle the shift from air to liquid cooling. This aligns with Digital Realty’s and its customers’ efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

The certification of KIX13 marks another milestone in the collaboration between Digital Realty and NVIDIA. Digital Realty was one of the first data centre providers to receive the DGX-Ready Data Center certification in 2019 and operates DGX-Ready data centres in over 20 markets worldwide.

Chris Sharp, CTO at Digital Realty, recognises the impact of AI on digital transformation and highlighted the role of Digital Realty in integrating AI technology into enterprise operations. 

“With Digital Realty’s KIX13 DGX-Ready Data Centre certification, we remain focused on delivering a meeting place that allows our customers to accelerate innovation and growth,” he added.

Additionally, he emphasises the need to remove Data Gravity barriers and explains how PlatformDIGITAL is an ideal location for data aggregation, staging, analytics, and management to optimise data exchange and ensure compliance.

Digital Realty, in a joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure, is also constructing a new data centre in Mumbai. The company has acquired 2.15 acres of land for this project, which is expected to require an investment of over Rs 2,000 crore (around $250 million). Once completed, the facility will offer 35 megawatts (Mw) of IT load. With this addition, BAM Digital Realty‘s planned capacity in India will reach 135 Mw. This investment follows the company’s initial entry into the Indian market with a 20-Mw greenfield data centre in Chennai, set to be launched by the end of 2023.

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