Digital Realty Brings Native AI Inference Platform on ServiceFabric® with Blackfuel
Key Highlights
- ➤Blackfuel selects Digital Realty’s (DLR) BCN1 data center for AI inference deployment
- ➤Deployment uses liquid-cooled Dell Technologies AI Factory infrastructure and AMD GPUs
- ➤ServiceFabric® integration enables private, low-latency connectivity for Blackfuel’s AI inference platform
- ➤ServiceFabric® spans more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers worldwide
Expert Statements
Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty
“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.”
Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty
“By bringing Blackfuel's inference platform onto ServiceFabric®, 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.”
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® ecosystem and ServiceFabric®, 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.
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