Digital Realty has launched a new liquid cooling lab in Brazil.

The company last week announced the opening of its first Innovation Lab (DRIL) in Latin America, located at its Vinhedo II campus in São Paulo.

Digital said DRIL Sao Paulo will provide customers with a real-world environment to test, validate, and optimize multi-vendor artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure ahead of larger-scale deployments.

“AI infrastructure is evolving at a pace that makes interoperability increasingly complex,” said Claude Brown, senior vice president of American sales at Digital Realty. “As enterprises bring together compute, networking, cooling, and other state-of-the-art technologies, they need confidence that these components will work together and perform at scale as AI workloads move from experimentation into production. The DRIL gives customers and partners around the world a controlled environment to identify potential fail points and prove out their architecture before deployment.”

The company currently has liquid cooling labs at its facilities in London, Virginia, and Tokyo.

The Brazilian DRIL is designed for high-density AI workloads, including liquid-cooled racks supporting cabinet densities of 150kW and above. The lab includes chilled-water cooling, containment systems, and both liquid-to-liquid and air-to-liquid cooling configurations.

“Bringing the DRIL to São Paulo is about investing directly in the future of AI in Latin America,” said Chris Torto, Ascenty founder and CEO. “Our commitment to the region is backed by years of building the infrastructure and local expertise necessary to understand what our customers need, complemented by the technology and partner ecosystem available across Digital Realty’s global platform, PlatformDIGITAL.”

The lab is hosted within Ascenty’s campus in Capinas. Ascenty is a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure. The Vinhedo campus launched in 2019 and will total five buildings at full build-out.

Further DRIL locations, including sites in Singapore and Johannesburg, are planned for late 2026.

Partners on the Brazilian DRIL deployment include CommScope, Nokia, OpenGlobe, Oracle, EBM, IDS, Multiway, Consultimer, Delta, and Schneider Electric.

“Enterprises across Latin America increasingly want cloud services delivered inside their own data centers, not consumed from a public region alone. Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer deployed with Digital Realty’s colocation and interconnection at the DRIL gives them a jointly validated architecture they can test against their own workloads, using no-production or sensitive data, only dummy data for testing, in-country, before making deployment decisions,” said João Paulo Lunardelli, head of the Oracle AI customer excellence center in Latin America.

Ascenty operates or is building 40 data centers in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia, connected by its own 4,000 km (2,485 mile) fiber-optic network.