Equinix

Equinix is a data centre and colocation company listed on Nasdaq. It runs data centres in dozens of markets on every continent, where businesses place their equipment and connect directly to clouds, networks and partners.

What Equinix offers

• Colocation data centres — physical space for servers and cabling, built for reliability at global scale.
• Interconnection — private links between clouds, networks and software providers inside its facilities.
• Software-defined networking — connections that can be set up on demand between clouds, data centres and hybrid environments.
• Support for AI workloads — placing compute close to data and spanning several clouds.
• Liquid cooling — guidance on cooling approaches for dense equipment.

Who it works with

Equinix says it serves more than 300 Fortune 500 companies, and its ecosystem includes hyperscale cloud providers, network operators and thousands of IT services companies. Merck KGaA is shown as a customer example.

Key facts

• Footprint: 77 markets across every continent
• Listing: Nasdaq, ticker EQIX