AXG and Digital Realty launch private AI infrastructure service in 30+ countries

AXG and Digital Realty on September 17, 2026, announced a partnership that enables global system integrators (GSIs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver fully hosted, lifecycle-managed private infrastructure as a service, with the joint offering available at launch across 31 markets in more than 30 countries spanning North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America.

The joint offering pairs Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL global data center platform with AXG’s multi-technology infrastructure-as-a-service model to deliver dedicated private AI, private cloud, and edge infrastructure.

Under the engagement model, the GSI or MSP retains ownership of the customer relationship, solution design, managed services, orchestration, and the application layer. AXG and Digital Realty supply the underlying hosting, commercial, and operational infrastructure behind those solutions, delivered globally under a simplified as-a-service model.

The commercial structure carries one harmonized agreement, one predictable monthly recurring charge, and no upfront infrastructure capital requirement. The companies describe the result as dedicated infrastructure with the commercial simplicity of cloud, and said the model lets GSIs and MSPs expand their managed-services scope and deliver a consistent solution across multiple technologies and geographies without having to build their own asset ownership, financing, procurement, contracting, and lifecycle-delivery capabilities.

What Each Company Contributes

Digital Realty contributes ServiceFabric, its interconnection solution and orchestration platform, along with data center space, power, cooling, connectivity, interconnection, and sovereign-ready colocation. AXG delivers and lifecycle-manages the infrastructure deployed within that environment, spanning the customer’s technology stack of choice across hardware, software, and supporting services.

The partnership follows Digital Realty’s September 15, 2026, launch of ServiceFabric MCP, which the company described as programmable, AI-native controls designed for enterprise AI deployments. Digital Realty said ServiceFabric MCP extends its global interconnection platform across more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers, and is built on the company’s AI Private Exchange architecture, its private interconnection fabric for AI workloads.

Digital Realty, which describes itself as the world’s largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center provider, lists more than 300 data centers, more than 6,000 global customers, more than 235,500 cross-connects, and more than 55 metros on its investor relations page.

Target Workloads

The companies said the joint offering supports four areas of enterprise and government demand. Private AI covers hosted AI infrastructure for training and inference workloads. Edge as a service covers distributed compute, networking, and AI infrastructure across dozens of locations worldwide. Cloud repatriation provides dedicated, cost-controlled private infrastructure for workloads moving out of public cloud, and neo-cloud capacity supplies hosted infrastructure for AI service providers and GPU-as-a-Service operators.

Executive Statements

Jules Johnston, Digital Realty’s senior vice president of channels and alliances, said in the partnership announcement: “By combining Digital Realty’s global, connected, and AI-ready infrastructure platform with AXG’s flexible as-a-service model, we are creating a powerful new route to market.” Johnston said the two companies together can help enterprises deploy and scale mission-critical infrastructure faster, with greater flexibility and alignment to their business priorities.

AXG chief executive Bo White said enterprises and governments are becoming far more deliberate about where each workload runs, with AI a major factor. For workloads with high utilization, he said, dedicated infrastructure can offer more attractive economics, and buyers are placing greater importance on data residency, architectural choice, and deploying inference closer to where data is generated, while still expecting the simplicity and flexibility they learned from cloud. White said the partnership with Digital Realty closes that gap by bringing a simple, globally scalable hosted private infrastructure-as-a-service offering to market across more than 30 countries.

AXG’s Platform and Backing

AXG, formally Align X Global, describes itself as a global enterprise private infrastructure platform that extends the as-a-service model to dedicated private, hosted, edge, and sovereign infrastructure. It serves enterprise and government customers through a partner ecosystem of GSIs, MSPs, and original equipment manufacturers.

According to AXG’s website, the company configures, finances, procures, deploys, and lifecycle-manages infrastructure across more than 50 countries through a single commercial and operational platform and works with more than 25 OEMs. The company states that it has serviced 12 Fortune 500 clients, manages more than 100,000 assets, and handles engagements ranging from $1 million to more than $100 million, typically on three- to five-year terms. The site lists Digital Realty among its colocation providers, alongside Equinix and others.

The company’s about page states that AXG operates through more than 35 legal entities globally, with local contracting, local invoicing, and local currency capabilities across North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America, and that it is backed by institutional lenders, global insurers, and structured-finance partners. White is an asset-finance and structured-transactions executive who previously held leadership roles at Macquarie Group and Sentry Financial, according to the company. AXG says its capital backing allows it to own and deploy assets globally, absorb commercial and country-level complexity, and offer partners and customers a single, predictable commercial model regardless of deal size or the number of countries involved.