Digital Realty NRT14 Data Centre In Japan Earns NVIDIA Certification

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 (Bernama) -- 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.

“Achieving this certification underscores Digital Realty’s ability to deliver liquid cooling for the next generation of AI-ready infrastructure. This milestone builds on years of work with NVIDIA and reflects our shared commitment to turning AI ambition into operational reality for our customers,” said Digital Realty Chief Technology Officer, Chris Sharp.

Digital Realty’s NRT14 is certified as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center programme to host NVIDIA DGX GB200 infrastructure and other similar NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based systems powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture.

According to Digital Realty in a statement, 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.

-- BERNAMA