Digital Realty has launched ServiceFabric Model Context Protocol (MCP), a control-plane interface it’s pitching as “AI-native” and designed to make infrastructure more programmable for Private AI deployments. Digital Realty says ServiceFabric MCP extends its global interconnection platform with programmable controls intended to help enterprises deploy AI across distributed environments, including Digital Realty and third-party sites.
Digital Realty ties ServiceFabric MCP to its AI Private Exchange (AIPx) architecture, which it describes as a private interconnection fabric for AI workloads that includes patented policy and orchestration technology. The company says ServiceFabric MCP is available across more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers, aiming to provide a standardized way for AI systems and agents to interact with infrastructure, applications, and enterprise services.
For data center and infrastructure teams, the practical idea here is straightforward: if AI deployments are going to span cages, metros, clouds, and partners, operators need a consistent way to interrogate topology, capacity, and link health, then apply identity and policy controls without turning every change into a bespoke integration project.
Digital Realty describes ServiceFabric MCP as delivering four capability areas: design and provisioning (intent-based connectivity design, provisioning, and API access through MCP), discovery and telemetry (real-time capacity, topology, and inventory discovery, plus live network telemetry signals for throughput, latency, and link health), identity and security (identity and access control via OAuth 2, plus programmable controls over network connectivity), and operations integration (agent-assisted diagnostics and troubleshooting with integration hooks for Slack, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, and Datadog).
The company says the service is designed to support AI deployments that span public cloud, network service providers, bare-metal platforms, and colocation environments, and that connections remain private while operating at Layer 2 and Layer 3 with authentication and access controls. Digital Realty also says customers aren’t required to operate exclusively in its facilities or commit to a single AI model.
“ServiceFabric MCP extends the foundation of AIPx with programmable controls and agent-ready interfaces, and our patent position reflects the long-term investment we’ve made in this architecture,” said Chris Sharp, chief technology officer at Digital Realty.
Digital Realty says ServiceFabric MCP and AIPx are being validated across internal deployments, enterprise AI environments, and partner ecosystem implementations. As one example, See All AI said it is using Digital Realty’s Boston campus and ServiceFabric to support an NVIDIA DGX B200 environment for medical imaging AI, citing high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity, secure movement of large imaging datasets, and “operational resiliency.” Digital Realty also said it has launched AI solutions with partners including ePlus, Lenovo, and Dell, built on infrastructure “powered by” technologies from NVIDIA and AMD.
ServiceFabric MCP is available now.
Source: Digital Realty
