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Digital Realty

digitalrealty.com · Real estate · DLR

Ranked 648 of 2,047 companies in the study

37Overall score
  • Visibility14
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment86
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Digital Realty

AI assistants name Digital Realty in 11.7% of answers, which is the same as the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 37 out of 100, ranking 648th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks showing some readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the real estate market: none named Digital Realty. AI assistants named it in 7 of 60 answers (11.7%). The typical real estate company is named in 11.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Digital Realty ranks 13 of 26 in its sector.

Named by AI in
11.7%
7 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
17.9%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
11 of 26
by overall score, where the typical real estate company scores 35
How Digital Realty compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
14

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
86

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with real estate

26 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score37
Ranks 11 of 26. Typical company: 35
Named in answers12%
Ranks 13 of 26. Typical company: 12%
AI readiness21
Ranks 11 of 26. Typical company: 21
What OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the best data center solutions for enterprises running complex cloud workflows?”

Below is a concise, practical guide to choosing and designing data‑center solutions for enterprises that run complex cloud workflows (CI/CD, data pipelines, ML training/inference, distributed microservices, high‑throughput analytics, etc.). I’ll cover solution types, important technical capabilities, recommended architectures, vendor examples, trade‑offs, and a short checklist to evaluate providers.

What “best” means

Matches your workload profile (latency, throughput, I/O, GPU/TPU needs).

Meets non‑functional requirements (security, compliance, availability, cost).

Enables operation …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Equinix12CoreSite4CyrusOne4
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Equinix
35.3%
Digital Realty
20.6%
Iron Mountain Data Centers
20.6%
CyrusOne
11.8%
CoreSite
11.8%
QTS Data Centers
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
3/15
Gemini
2/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
1/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.digitalrealty.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

databank.com
33
coresite.com
24
flexential.com
23
equinix.com
18
datacenters.com
12
datacenterknowledge.com
12
ibm.com
9
datacentremagazine.com
7
volico.com
7
netrality.com
7

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (4 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What are the best data center solutions for enterprises running complex cloud workflows?
  • Best practices for deploying hybrid cloud environments using US data center services
  • Is enterprise-grade colocation worth the investment for growing technology companies?
  • How to resolve power redundancy concerns in colocation facilities?
  • Common issues with cross-connect latency in multi-cloud data centers
  • What should enterprises look for when choosing a data center interconnection service?
  • How can businesses support AI-driven workflows in colocation environments?
  • Colocation vs private cloud: which is better for scaling enterprise IT infrastructure?
  • Factors affecting total cost of ownership for enterprise data center services
  • Typical pricing models for high-capacity colocation in the United States
  • What are some alternatives to carrier-neutral colocation for interconnecting multi-cloud environments?
  • How do retail and wholesale colocation differ for large organizations?
  • Alternatives to traditional on-premise data centers for large-scale IT infrastructure
  • Where can enterprises find sustainable data center options with robust interconnection features?
  • Top colocation providers for high-density AI workloads in the US
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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