Digital Realty, the US-based data center platform, announced Thursday it is targeting nearly S$7 billion ($5.49 billion) of total investment in Singapore, reinforcing the market’s critical role as an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hub for Asia Pacific.
The firm said in a statement that more than S$4.3 billion ($3.37 billion) investment has been planned for new data center developments, building on existing investments.
“Singapore is emerging as a critical hub for AI inference in Asia Pacific,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Digital Realty.
“As organizations deploy AI in real-world environments, they need secure, highly connected infrastructure close to where data is created and consumed. This S$7 billion investment target demonstrates our confidence in Singapore’s role as the region’s AI infrastructure anchor,
“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,” she added.
According to the statement, Digital Realty has nearly doubled its Singapore workforce over the past three years to more than 300 employees and currently expects to grow to 400 by 2030, potentially creating more high-value jobs in digital infrastructure and emerging technologies.
Nearly 90 percent of the company’s Singapore team are Singapore nationals, reflecting deep investment in workforce development and long-term capability building.
To support this growth, Digital Realty relocated and expanded its Asia Pacific regional office within Singapore to IOI Central Boulevard in July 2025, with further expansion anticipated in 2026 which is expected to support the region’s growing needs.
Beyond planned workforce expansion, Digital Realty is also strengthening Singapore’s ecosystem through operational and innovation capabilities.
The company operates its Global Command Center in Singapore, a 24/7 monitoring and response hub that reinforces the country’s role as a trusted base for critical digital infrastructure operations.
In the second half of 2026, Digital Realty expects to launch a Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) at its Loyang facility, aiming to provide customers with a fully supported environment to develop, test, and validate AI and hybrid cloud solutions prior to wider deployment.
This combination of operational excellence and innovation infrastructure is expected to help organizations accelerate production AI rollouts with greater confidence.
Digital Realty is also investing in Singapore’s broader digital infrastructure ecosystem.
The company collaborates with partners on early-stage quantum data center initiatives to prepare for the next frontier of compute.
Earlier this year, Digital Realty hosted a Digital AI Open House for students from the National University of Singapore’s Tembusu College, connecting the next generation with the infrastructure powering digital transformation, cloud and AI.
According to the firm, Singapore’s strategic positioning reflects the fundamental requirements of AI deployment.
As enterprises move from experimentation to production, particularly with inference workloads, it opined that the need for low-latency infrastructure close to users and data becomes critical.
Unlike AI training workloads, which can be geographically dispersed, it noted inference demands proximity to users, networks and data.
This makes Singapore’s strong connectivity, trusted operating environment, and well-established data governance approach increasingly strategic for high-value, latency-sensitive AI applications, it added.
Digital Realty said it supports this evolution by combining secure data center environments with robust connectivity ecosystems across PlatformDIGITAL®, enabling organizations to balance performance, governance, and sustainability as they scale AI deployments.
With its nearly S$7 billion ($5.49 billion) investment target, expanded workforce, and growing innovation capabilities, Digital Realty said it is well positioned to support Singapore’s evolution as a leading AI infrastructure hub for Asia Pacific, enabling the next wave of enterprise AI deployment across the region.