Data center giant Digital Realty unveiled a model context protocol (MCP) iteration of its ServiceFabric interconnection and service orchestration platform.

The extension aims to provide engineers configuring networks with standardized interfaces that an AI agent or large language model (LLM) can interpret directly and is positioned as a means to enable programmable private AI environments across more than 800 Digital Realty and third-party data centers.

The offering operates at layer-two and layer-three, with connections all being private. It’s suitable for capabilities including connectivity design and provisioning; capacity; topology' and inventory discovery; and identity and access control via the OAuth 2 authorization protocol. There are also integration hooks for Slack, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, and Datadog.

“ServiceFabric MCP extends the foundation of AI Private Exchange (AIPx) with programmable controls and agent-ready interfaces, and our patent position reflects the long-term investment we’ve made in this architecture,” Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp noted.

MCP was introduced in November 2024 by Claude and Mythos maker Anthropic, and provides a standardized template for developers to connect with external services and data repositories without unique integrations. In the networking world, it can be used in handling downstream effects, mainly around traffic flow and governance, while for engineers it can run vector queries, generate reports, and perform data handling operations without giving agents any control features.

Digital Realty said it has validated its MCP-infused ServiceFabric when paired with its existing private interconnection fabric across internal deployments as well as its partner ecosystem implementations.

It now wants to bring it to enterprise AI environments. See All AI, a deep learning medical imaging company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, was among those referenced in a company statement.

“We are developing advanced medical imaging AI systems that demand both massive compute performance and highly scalable data infrastructure," See All AI CEO Michael Thorton noted. "Digital Realty's Borton campus and ServiceFabric provide the high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity required to support our Nvidia DGX B200 environment, enabling secure movement of large imaging datasets, dynamic connectivity to cloud resources, and the operational resiliency needed for production health care AI."