By Chris Wack

Digital Realty Trust shares were 6% higher, at $173.78, after the company introduced its data center innovation lab, the Digital Realty Innovation Lab.

The technology company said Wednesday the new lab offers partners and customers a fully supported, real-world data center testing environment where they can bring their own workloads or leverage pre-configured infrastructure to validate AI and hybrid cloud-deployments before scaling.

The lab will be located within a live colocation data center at Digital Realty's northern Virginia campus.

Digital Realty said the lab will allow existing customers to configure their new workloads in the lab environment for validation and optimization. New customers can collaborate with Digital Realty and its partners to replicate a representative architecture.

The ePlus AI Experience Center will allow businesses to explore AI-specific power, cooling, and GPU resource requirements in an environment optimized for AI infrastructure. Companies can also test latency scenarios ensuring equal performance across multiple locations as well as cloud destinations.

A London-based lab is expected to go live in early 2026.

Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com

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September 10, 2025 13:13 ET (17:13 GMT)

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