Zenlayer, the distributed cloud for AI, today announced it has been named Digital Realty's APAC Partner of the Year 2025 for a second consecutive year, a recognition of its outstanding contribution to helping customers deploy and scale AI-ready infrastructure across Asia-Pacific.

The award reflects a year of deepening collaboration between Zenlayer and Digital Realty in supporting cloud providers, AI innovators, and global enterprises. Together, the two companies delivered major infrastructure projects, including an 11.5 MW AI deployment in Japan, while expanding their partnership to support customers across North America, Europe, South America, and South Africa.

“Zenlayer has distinguished itself through its ability to deliver complex infrastructure projects with speed, quality, and reliability,” said Jules Johnston, Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, Digital Realty. “Zenlayer’s extensive edge network, combined with Digital Realty’s global footprint of over 300 data centers, creates a platform with over 600 points of presence worldwide, enabling enterprises to accelerate deployment across Asia-Pacific and beyond.”

As demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, Zenlayer is rapidly strengthening its leadership in large-scale infrastructure delivery. Through a growing track record of megawatt-scale AI deployments under aggressive timelines, the company helps customers design, deploy, and operate high-performance infrastructure to industry standards across network architecture, cooling strategy, and operational readiness.

“We are honored to be named Digital Realty’s APAC Partner of the Year,” said Joe Zhu, Founder and CEO of Zenlayer. “The future of AI will be built on globally distributed infrastructure. Together with Digital Realty, we are enabling organizations to deploy AI capacity where it is needed most, helping them scale faster, reach new markets, and bring AI innovations to users around the world.”

The partnership continues to evolve through deeper integration between Zenlayer Fabric and Digital Realty's ServiceFabric™ platform, creating a unified ecosystem for connectivity and compute. This will enable customers to seamlessly extend connectivity from Digital Realty environments into Zenlayer's global network while accessing customizable bare metal compute services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of AI infrastructure worldwide.

About Zenlayer

Zenlayer is the distributed cloud for AI that powers AI experiences through distributed inference and global connectivity. Businesses utilize Zenlayer’s on-demand compute and networking to deploy and run applications at the edge. With approximately 300 edge nodes across 50 countries, 200+ Tbps of network capacity, and 10,000+ direct cloud and network connections, Zenlayer helps businesses reach 85% of the internet population within 25 ms.

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Together, Zenlayer and Digital Realty are helping customers deploy complex, large-scale AI infrastructure across APAC and beyond with speed, quality, and reliability.