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Equinix Inc. is an American citizen multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It specialized in internet connectivity and data center colocation centers, commonly known as carrier hotels until the company converted to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in January 2015.
Equinix Inc. has been described as a leader in the global data center industry. As of 2025, it operates 260 data centers, in 33 countries, across five continents. Equinix is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol EQIX. As of December 2023, it employed approximately 13,000 people worldwide.
In 2018, according to Sludge, Equinix signed three contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide technology support equipment totaling over $5 million. In September 2020, the company shifted its branding, describing itself as a "digital infrastructure company".
Equinix data centers in London engaged with designer Maximilian Raynor, who created a dress from its repurposed data center equipment. The wearable art dress was constructed from 3,600 meters of network cables and was revealed at Raynor's London Fashion Week pre-show in February 2025.
In 2010, the company purchased Switch and Data Facilities Company, Inc., a U.S. Internet exchange and colocation services provider. The company extended its operations to the Middle East and in Southeast Asia in 2012. Also in 2012, it acquired Hong Kong-based data center provider Asia-Tone. In 2014, Equinix increased its Latin American presence when it acquired Alog Datacenters of Brazil S.A., the country's leading provider of carrier-neutral data centers.
In 2015, Equinix converted to a real estate investment trust (REIT) to gain tax advantages and add shareholder value. That same year, it acquired the professional services company Nimbo.
In May 2015, Equinix said it would purchase the British company TelecityGroup, the largest acquisition in the company's history. The offer was cleared by the European Commission in November after Equinix agreed to sell eight of its data centers around Europe to Digital Realty, while retaining its Telecity Harbour Exchange data center in London Docklands, an acquisition Equinix completed in a transaction valued at approximately $3.8 billion. The addition of these data centers more than doubled Equinix's capacity in Europe. In December 2015, the company purchased Japanese provider Bit-Isle, adding six data centers in Japan.
In 2016, Equinix opened new data centers in Dallas, Sydney, and Tokyo and announced a deal to acquire 29 data centers in 15 markets from Verizon.
In 2017, the firm opened a new data center in São Paulo. In that same year, Equinix acquired Itconic, which expanded its data center footprint into Spain and Portugal.
In 2018, Equinix purchased the Dallas Infomart building, where it had already been operating four data centers. It also acquired Australian data center provider Metronode and its 10 data centers. The company opened its first data center in South Korea the next year.
In 2020, Equinix finalized the purchase of Packet, a startup that provided bare-metal servers as a cloud service. The company expanded into India in August 2020, with the acquisition of GPX India, including a campus in Mumbai with two data centers. In October 2020, Equinix completed the acquisition of 13 Bell Canada data centers. The company also invested heavily in hyperscale xScale data centers.
On December 7, 2021, Equinix announced its acquisition of Main One, a West African data center and connectivity solutions provider, for $320 million.
In March 2022, Equinix expanded into Chile and Peru with $758 million acquisition of four data centers from Entel.
In November 2022, Equinix announced its market entry into Malaysia with plans to build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center located in Iskandar Puteri, Johor Bahru, Johore called JH1. With an initial investment of approximately $40 million, JH1 launched operations in Q1 2024, providing 500 cabinets and 1,960 square meters of colocation space.
In 2024, the company announced a $390 million expansion plan to build more data centers in Africa over the ensuing five years. Later that year, it partnered with the Canada Pension Plan CPP Investments and Singapore's GIC to develop new data centers, expecting to meet demand resulting from a boom in artificial intelligence.
In September 2020, Equinix issued $1.35 billion in green bonds to help fund environmental projects. At the same time, the company introduced a Green Finance Framework to describe how it reports on and tracks projects funded through green debt.
In January 2021, Equinix joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, committing to make their data centers climate neutral by 2030.
In 2024, the company expanded a heat export program that redirects excess heat from its data centers to nearby buildings. That year, Equinix vice president Christopher Wellise said that rising energy use from artificial intelligence was increasing strain on Electrical grid and that AI development needed to be considered with sustainability in mind.
Equinix’s environmental efforts have been recognized by external organizations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the company a Green Power Partner in 2019 and 2020 and Sustainability Magazine listed Equinix among the top ten sustainable data center providers in 2024.
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