Equinix Maintains Its Global Data Center Lead

By John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor

Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) bills itself as “The World’s Digital Infrastructure Company” and sports the scale of data center operations to support that claim. At the end of 2021, the company reported a global footprint of 240 data centers, both owned and operated through joint ventures, across 66 major metropolitan markets in 27 countries on 5 continents in three operating regions – Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific. EQIX owns 122 of the 240 data centers that it runs. These owned facilities, dubbed International Business Exchanges (IBX), account for 17.9 million of 28.1 million total gross square footage of its data center portfolio. IBXs generate 59 percent of EQIX’s total recurring revenues. Continue Reading