Cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre platform Digital Realty is targeting nearly $7 billion in total investment in Singapore to support the city-state as a hub for artificial intelligence (AI) inference in Asia Pacific.
More than $4.3 billion will be allocated to new data centre development, building on existing investments.
As organisations move AI from experimentation into production, the infrastructure requirements change. Training AI workloads can run from geographically dispersed locations, but inference (or running AI models in live environments) demands proximity to users and data. Digital Realty has pointed to that dynamic as central to Singapore's growing strategic value in the region.
"As organisations deploy AI in real-world environments, they need secure, highly connected infrastructure close to where data is created and consumed. This investment target demonstrates our confidence in Singapore's role as the region's AI infrastructure anchor,” says Serene Nah, managing director and head of Asia Pacific at Digital Realty.
She continues: “We're not just expanding capacity—we're building the operational capabilities, innovation facilities, and local talent base needed to support customers as AI enters production at scale."
The company has nearly doubled its Singapore headcount over the past three years to more than 300 employees and expects to reach 400 by 2030. Around 90% of the local team are Singapore nationals. In July 2025, Digital Realty relocated its Asia Pacific regional office to IOI Central Boulevard, with further expansion at that office expected in 2026.
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The company also runs its Global Command Center from Singapore, a round-the-clock monitoring and response hub for its broader platform.
In the second half of 2026, Digital Realty plans to open an Innovation Lab at its Loyang facility, giving enterprise customers a dedicated environment to test and validate AI and hybrid cloud configurations before committing to full-scale deployment.
Beyond AI, Digital Realty is working with partners on early-stage quantum data centre initiatives to prepare for the next frontier of compute.
