Equinix is the world’s largest data center company, operating over 260 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 70 metropolitan areas across 30+ countries. Founded in 1998, the company started in the San Francisco Bay Area and grew through aggressive expansion and acquisitions.
The core of Equinix’s business is colocation — providing physical space, power, and cooling for enterprises to house their servers and networking equipment. But the company has evolved well beyond basic colo. Equinix Fabric lets customers establish private, on-demand connections to hundreds of cloud providers, SaaS platforms, and network service providers.
Equinix Metal (formerly Packet, acquired in 2020) provides bare-metal-as-a-service, letting customers deploy dedicated servers through an API without managing physical hardware. The company also operates one of the world’s largest internet exchange platforms.
As a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) listed on NASDAQ, Equinix generates over $7 billion in annual revenue. Its customer base includes cloud giants like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, which all have direct interconnection points inside Equinix facilities.
