Equinix
Sign in to saveEquinix Inc. is an American multinational internet and data center 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. It is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol EQIX. As of 2025, the company operates 260 data centers in 33 countries, across five continents and employed more than 13,000 people worldwide.
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- Equinix, Inc.
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- Equinix logo.svg
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- 153px
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- Equinix Logo
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- 1 Lagoon Drive.jpg
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- Headquarters in Redwood City
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- Public
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- Redwood City, California
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- United States
- Company.industry
- Internet
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- Data centers
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- (2025)
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- (2025)
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- (2025)
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- (2025)
- Company.equity
- (2025)
- Company.num_employees
- 13,716
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2025
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Equinix Inc. is an American multinational internet and data center 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. It is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol EQIX. As of 2025, the company operates 260 data centers in 33 countries, across five continents and employed more than 13,000 people worldwide.
==History== Equinix, Inc. was founded in 1998 by Al Avery and Jay Adelson, who were two facilities managers at Digital Equipment Corporation. The firm promoted its data center platform as a neutral place where competing networks could connect and share data traffic. The firm capitalized on the "network effect", through which each new customer would broaden the appeal of its platform. It expanded to Asia-Pacific in October 2002 and Europe in 2007, followed by Latin America in 2011, and the Middle East in 2013.
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