Digital Realty Innovation Lab
Validate before you scale: the Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) is where enterprises test, validate, and optimize multi-vendor AI, HPC, and hybrid cloud solutions on production-grade infrastructure.
AI and HPC workloads depend on infrastructure certainty
Innovative workloads are multi-vendor, with no single provider owning the full solution. To reduce risk and improve outcomes, enterprises need to test components together before deploying advanced workloads like:
Private AI training and inference environments are GPU-intensive, high-density deployments that require the integration of compute, storage, and orchestration platforms.
Compute-intensive architectures requiring high-density and thermal optimization need workload validation under real cooling and power constraints.
Seamless integration across on-prem, colocation, and cloud requires low-latency interconnection and workload mobility optimization.
Faster decisions. Fewer surprises. Better outcomes.
The Digital Realty Innovation Lab is where enterprises test, validate, and optimize integrated, multi-vendor solutions for AI, HPC, and advanced workloads in a production-grade, high-density colocation environment.
Test how OEMs, VARs, SIs, and MSPs work together at target densities to reduce costs from post-deployment redesigns.
See leading partner platforms perform under real-world conditions to reduce integration risk and time from proof-of-concept to production.
Validate real-world thermal, density, and power limits for high-density workloads before you scale it to help achieve maximum project ROI.
Move from concept to production with a clear, jointly-validated path and accelerate your time to value for innovation.
Confidently design and validate complex architectures with unified facility-to-stack expertise and get the data that leads to faster internal approvals.
Optimize configurations for maximum efficiency and performance to help lower total cost of ownership for AI infrastructure.
See how we validate AI-ready infrastructure
The IDC Vendor Profile features the Digital Realty Innovation Lab, our dedicated proving ground for next-generation infrastructure. Learn how DRIL helps ensure our AI-ready capabilities are validated, future-proofed, and adaptable to evolving demands.
From concept to confidence
The DRIL gives enterprises certainty to build future-ready infrastructure. Leave your DRIL engagement with validated architecture and partner-backed evidence, accelerating internal approvals and accelerating time-to-value.
DRIL locations
Explore our global footprint of DRIL locations where enterprises can test, validate, and optimize infrastructure solutions in a live colocation environment.
London
London hosts our flagship European DRIL and is located in Cloud House, LHR19.
Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia is home to our inaugural DRIL, serving North America. It is located in ACC6.
Tokyo
Tokyo hosts our flagship Asia-Pacific DRIL in NRT12.
Future DRIL locations
We are expanding DRIL across our global footprint.
São Paulo
Our flagship South American DRIL in São Paulo will open in September 2026 in VIN02.
Singapore
Our Southeast Asia DRIL in Singapore will open in late 2026.
Johannesburg
Our first DRIL in Africa will be based in Johannesburg and is planned for 2027.
