Digital Realty, 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.
Multi-Megawatt deployment at BCN1 combines dedicated AI capacity, advanced cooling and private connectivity through ServiceFabric, supporting scalable AI inference services from Barcelona.
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.
The core of the collaboration is the integration of Blackfuel's inference platform with ServiceFabric, 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 provides a low-latency, low-jitter network path that can help reduce Time-to-First-Token, 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's optimized network latency can shorten overall task completion time by 1 to 2.5 seconds compared with public internet connectivity.
By connecting directly to ServiceFabric, 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.
Today, ServiceFabric 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.
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