Private artificial intelligence and data exchange

A method for a data center provider entity providing an environment of a plurality of data centers for privately exchanging and processing data for AI related tasks using software defined networking (SDN), comprising:

• receiving, at a computing device deployed in a data center of the plurality of data centers within the environment, an identification of (i) an AI related task to process and (ii) a characteristic describing data needed to process the AI related task, wherein the plurality of data centers provide physical computer server space and network connectivity services for a plurality of customers of the plurality of data centers;
• locating, by the computing device, a data provider of a plurality of data providers within the environment such that the located data provider has access to a data set according to the characteristic,
• wherein the data provider is provided by a first customer of the plurality of customers within the environment, and
• wherein the data provider is located at a first data center of the plurality of data centers;
• locating, by the computing device, a task provider of a plurality of task providers within the environment such that the located task provider is configured to process the task,
• wherein the task provider is provided by a second customer of the plurality of customers,
• wherein the task provider is located at a second data center of the plurality of data centers, and
• wherein the second customer is different from the first customer;
• establishing, by the computing device, a real-time, private, and secure network connection between the data provider and the task provider such that the data provider and the task provider are able to communicate with one another via the network connection without using publicly accessible network addresses, wherein each of the plurality of data centers is connected to the established network connection;
• orchestrating, by the computing device, the data set to be transferred from the data provider to the task provider via the established network connection;
• and
• in response to the transfer, orchestrating, by the computing device, the task provider to process the task.