DESIGN & BUILD
Digital Realty’ s PlatformDIGITAL represents perhaps the industry’ s most comprehensive approach to infrastructure scalability through industrialisation and standardisation. The company operates over 300 facilities globally with increasingly uniform technical specifications, enabling rapid deployment and consistent performance.
The ServiceFabric architecture underpinning PlatformDIGITAL provides software-defined infrastructure management across Digital Realty’ s entire portfolio. Clients provision power, cooling, connectivity and cloud access through APIs, scaling resources dynamically without physical reconfigurations. This abstraction layer allows infrastructure to function more like cloud services – elastic, programmable and consumption-based.
Digital Realty’ s modular data centre designs reduce deployment timelines by 30-40 % compared to traditional
construction. The company’ s global expansion across Africa, Latin America and Asia demonstrates how standardised, modular infrastructure enables geographic scalability. Identical technical specifications in Lagos, São Paulo and Singapore provide multinational enterprises with predictable performance globally.
Digital Realty’ s substantial investment in liquid cooling infrastructure positions it for high-density AI workloads. Many of its facilities now feature liquid cooling capabilities, with rear-door heat exchangers and direct-to-chip systems supporting racks exceeding 60kW.
Digital Realty’ s approach combines physical infrastructure standardisation with software-defined management, creating genuinely scalable platforms that accommodate both geographic expansion and exponential density increases simultaneously.