Digital Realty Wins APAC Award for AI-Ready Infrastructure in Singapore
Source: PR Newswire APAC
Digital Realty has been named Outstanding Company of the Year at the Asia Pacific Business Awards for its work advancing AI-ready data centre infrastructure, with the company's Singapore-based managing director Serene Nah also recognised as Outstanding Executive of the Year.
Digital Realty, one of the world's largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre operators, has been named Outstanding Company of the Year at the Asia Pacific Business Awards 2025-2026 for its work building AI-ready digital infrastructure across the region. The company's Singapore-based Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Serene Nah, was also recognised as Outstanding Executive of the Year in a dual win that underscores Singapore's growing role as a regional AI infrastructure hub.
The Asia Pacific Business Awards recognise companies and leaders across the region for outstanding professionalism and business performance. Digital Realty's win comes as the data centre market across Asia Pacific is forecast to nearly triple in size between 2024 and 2029, with AI inference workloads driving much of the demand. Singapore, where Digital Realty operates its Asia Pacific headquarters, sits at the centre of this expansion.
Digital Realty is targeting nearly S$7 billion in total investment in Singapore in 2026, including S$4.3 billion in new data centre developments. The company has nearly doubled its Singapore workforce over the past three years to more than 300 employees and expects to grow to 400 by 2030, with nearly 90% of its local team being Singapore nationals. Later this year, Digital Realty plans to launch a Digital Realty Innovation Lab at its Loyang facility to help customers develop and test AI and hybrid cloud solutions.
The award and investment plans highlight how Singapore is positioning itself as a critical hub for AI inference — the phase where trained AI models are deployed in real-world applications, requiring low-latency infrastructure close to users and data. Unlike AI training, which can be geographically flexible, inference demands proximity, making Singapore's strong connectivity, trusted operating environment, and data governance framework increasingly strategic.
Why it matters for Singapore: Digital Realty's expanded investment and workforce plans signal that Singapore's bet on becoming Asia Pacific's AI infrastructure anchor is paying off. The S$7 billion commitment, combined with new innovation labs and growing local hiring, reinforces the city-state's position as the go-to market for production-scale AI deployment in the region — a trend that directly supports job creation in high-value tech roles and strengthens the broader digital ecosystem.