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Digital Realty brings native AI inference platform on ServiceFabric(R) with Blackfuel. Multi-Megawatt deployment at BCN1 combines dedicated AI capacity, advanced cooling and private connectivity through ServiceFabric(R), supporting scalable AI inference services from Barcelona. AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the world's largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, today announced that Blackfuel has selected Digital Realty's BCN1 data center in Barcelona as the foundation for deploying and scaling its AI inference platform. Built on liquid-cooled Dell Technologies AI Factory infrastructure and AMD GPUs, the deployment brings together substantial dedicated AI capacity, Digital Realty's global PlatformDIGITAL(R) ecosystem and ServiceFabric(R), the company's software-defined interconnection platform. Open by design, Digital Realty's platform supports the full range of AI infrastructure stacks and accelerator architectures across its global ecosystem, giving customers the flexibility to deploy AI where and how it best supports their workloads. The core of the collaboration is the integration of Blackfuel's inference platform with ServiceFabric(R), enabling AI services to be delivered across Digital Realty's connected ecosystem, closer to the enterprise applications, data and users they are designed to serve. Rather than requiring organizations to move large volumes of data across public environments to access AI capabilities, the combined solution brings inference closer to where data already resides. Delivered through private connectivity, ServiceFabric(R) provides a low-latency, low-jitter network path that can help reduce Time-to-First-Token (TTFT), improve perceived response times and support faster completion of agentic AI workflows, while giving enterprises greater control over security and data flows. For agentic workflows requiring 20 to 50 sequential inference API calls, reducing TTFT by 50 milliseconds through ServiceFabric(R)'s optimized network latency can shorten overall task completion time by 1 to 2.5 seconds compared with public internet connectivity. At the scale of millions of tasks per day, these incremental gains can translate into significant efficiencies, highlighting the importance of low-latency connectivity alongside inference performance. By connecting directly to ServiceFabric(R), Blackfuel can reach enterprises, cloud providers, networks and digital ecosystems across Digital Realty's global platform, creating a scalable route for customers to consume high-performance AI inference within the environments where their digital operations already take place. "The next infrastructure layer will be built around tokens. With Digital Realty and ServiceFabric(R), we are building the foundations of Blackfuel's AI Token Grid: dedicated inference capacity with global reach and local control, connected to where enterprises' data and applications live. Barcelona is our first step toward a much larger ambition: making reliable AI capacity available wherever businesses need it," said Blackfuel. Today, ServiceFabric(R) extends across more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers worldwide, giving Blackfuel a global connectivity fabric through which it can scale AI services beyond Barcelona while supporting more deterministic access to distributed enterprise data sets, tools and applications. This helps transform AI from an Internet-accessed service into an enterprise-grade platform, improving responsiveness, governance and the ability to scale adoption across business-critical use cases. "The next phase of AI will be measured in useful tokens per megawatt and delivering them takes more than compute alone. It takes power, cooling and connectivity working together as one platform." said Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty. "By bringing Blackfuel's inference platform onto ServiceFabric(R), enterprises can reach high-performance AI services on the same connected ecosystem where their applications and data already live. Barcelona is the first proof point, and we're excited to help Blackfuel scale from here." About Digital Realty Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL(R), the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx(R) solution methodology for powering innovation, from cloud and digital transformation to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 55+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow Military Industry Today on LinkedIn and X. About Blackfuel Blackfuel is an inference-focused neocloud co-founded by Charles Kantor, Xavier Fischer and Dali Kilani. Its founding team brings experience across frontier AI, model quantization and cloud software. The company combines dedicated accelerator infrastructure, proprietary software and long-term commercial commitments to build and operate AI compute at scale. Its platform serves dedicated capacity and managed inference needs, with European deployments forming the foundation for global expansion. For Additional Information Investor Relations Jordan Sadler / Jim Huseby Digital Realty +1 (737) 281-0101 [email protected] Media Contact Blackfuel [email protected] Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially, including statements related to the company's strategy, expectations, AI infrastructure demand, the capabilities and benefits of PlatformDIGITAL(R), ServiceFabric(R), and other Digital Realty offerings, anticipated performance, scalability and availability of AI-related solutions, expected benefits of Digital Realty's collaboration with Blackfuel and other technology providers and customer demand for company's products and services. 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Digital Realty plans cable landing station at Los Angeles Data Center. Digital Realty's first turnkey cable landing station is designed to bring subsea capacity directly into an established data center and interconnection environment. September 30, 2026 Proximity between El Segundo's beach landing and LAX12 is central to the design, giving cable owners a more direct path from subsea systems into terrestrial networks. Digital Realty is planning to build a cable landing station (CLS) inside its LAX12 data center in El Segundo, Calif., adding a new on-ramp for subsea capacity into the Los Angeles metro area. The company announced the project on Sept. 22 in partnership with Assured Communications, a specialist in subsea infrastructure design and delivery. The CLS is aimed at routes between Asia-Pacific and North America and is expected to begin supporting cables in 2028. A cable landing station is where a subsea cable terminates on land and connects to terrestrial networks. Increasingly, hyperscale cloud and AI providers are bringing cables directly to specific data centers rather than terminating them at standalone landing stations. Assured is also a strategic partner to the landing operator for AWS's Sta'O'Nuk cable. "Digital Realty sees cable landing infrastructure as an increasingly important part of the broader connectivity ecosystem," said Craig Waldrop, vice president of strategy and business development at Digital Realty, in an interview with Data Center Knowledge. "Subsea cables provide international capacity, but that capacity is most valuable when it can connect efficiently into the data centers, networks, cloud providers, and customers that need it." Inside LAX12: Digital Realty's first turnkey cable landing station. The planned CLS is designed to provide subsea cable operators with a turnkey solution for landing and powering their systems. Assured is supporting the design, engineering, and construction, drawing on its experience with subsea cable systems and landing infrastructure. The project is currently in development. The station is a new type of project for Digital Realty. "LAX12 represents Digital Realty's first turnkey cable landing solution and marks an important evolution in the company's broader interconnection platform," Waldrop said. The approach is intended to pull landing infrastructure and surrounding networks into a single location. "That simplifies the path from subsea infrastructure into terrestrial networks, while creating increased flexibility for cable owners in how they distribute capacity once it reaches the US," he said. Why put the landing station inside the Data Center? The goal is to bring subsea capacity closer to the networks and clouds that consume it. "By bringing the landing point directly into an established interconnection environment, rather than treating the cable landing station as a standalone piece of infrastructure, the project creates a more direct bridge between subsea capacity arriving from Asia-Pacific and the broader digital ecosystem in Los Angeles," Waldrop said. He noted that in El Segundo specifically, the proximity of the beach landing to Digital Realty's existing infrastructure provides a more direct path from subsea systems into terrestrial networks. The connection will run through Digital Realty's carrier-neutral model. "The value of a carrier-neutral model is that it gives cable operators a common landing environment that is not tied to a single network or cloud provider," Waldrop said. What's fueling investment in subsea connectivity? AI is a major driver of bandwidth demand, but not the only one. "AI is contributing to demand for high-capacity and resilient connectivity, but this extends beyond any single workload," Waldrop said. "As traffic patterns evolve and infrastructure requirements grow, Digital Realty sees subsea infrastructure as an important part of the underlying infrastructure customers need to connect globally." He added that demand for efficient, resilient connectivity continues to drive investment in greater capacity and route diversity. "While AI certainly contributes to that demand, it's one of several factors shaping investment decisions," he said. "Cloud adoption, content delivery, network expansion, and broader digital infrastructure growth are all driving continued investment in subsea connectivity." Contributor Sean Michael Kerner is an IT consultant, technology enthusiast and tinkerer. He consults to industry and media organizations on technology issues.

Digital Realty hires new global head of energy. Microsoft veteran Jim Collins joins the team September 24, 2026 US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president, global head of energy. Collins joins the company from Microsoft, where he spent the last 13 years in a range of leadership roles. He most recently held the position of general manager of global energy markets. Before joining Microsoft, Collins spent ten years as an energy consultant at North Carolina consulting firm Brubaker & Associates. 29 Apr 2026 Are we having a hydro moment in the data center sector? Reflecting on the news on LinkedIn, Collins said: "The opportunity to help advance Digital Realty's global energy strategy at a time of extraordinary growth in data centers, cloud, and AI infrastructure is both exciting and humbling. I look forward to learning from the outstanding leadership team and collaborating with colleagues, customers, utilities, policymakers, and industry partners around the world." Digital Realty has undertaken a range of clean energy and sustainability initiatives to mitigate its carbon footprint. This includes rooftop solar arrays at its Swiss data centers, joining a 24/7 renewable energy matching initiative in Sweden, and a 500GWh hydropower deal for power from three projects on the Ohio River. More in the management & operations channel.