Equinix Extends the Digital Edge for Companies with Five New Data Centers and 14 Expansions Opening in 2017

Equinix Extends the Digital Edge for Companies
with Five New Data Centers and 14 Expansions Opening in 2017

Expansion enables more companies to
interconnect at the edge to transform their IT operations for the digital age

Singapore — April 4, 2017 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, will open five new
International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data centers and 14 expansions of existing
IBX data centers in 2017 as a part of its $1 billion non-recurring capital
expenditure expansion program.  Since the company’s founding,
Equinix has invested more than $17 billion (including the planned acquisition
of a portfolio of data centers from Verizon Communications, Inc. as announced
in December 2016) to extend its global
footprint.

The expansions build
on the significant global growth Equinix experienced in 2016, during which the
company opened new data centers in key economic hubs including Dallas,
Sydney and Tokyo, and integrated the acquisitions of Bit-isle in Japan and
Telecity Group in Europe.  By providing additional capacity in 2017,
Equinix continues to play an important role in helping companies to extend
their IT operations to the digital edge through the interconnection of people,
locations, clouds and data.

2017 Openings

Five New IBX Data
Center Openings in 2017 — Throughout 2017, Equinix will open five
new IBX data centers, adding more than 5,600 new cabinets and greater than one
million gross square feet of data center space.  The new sites will be
directly connected to other Equinix IBX data centers within each metro via
fiber links between the sites.

o São Paulo – São Paulo is the financial and business capital of Brazil
and the main data center market in the country.  The first phase of the
new SP3 IBX, opened in March, adds 725 cabinets and more than 215,000 gross
square feet of data center space in 2017.  At full buildout, SP3 will
double Equinix’s available space in Brazil, making SP3 the largest
multi-tenant data center in Latin America.  Equinix is home to the densest
concentration of network carriers in Brazil and its São
Paulo data centers are in close proximity to the Bovespa stock exchange,
offering direct connectivity to a large number of financial firms.  With
the addition of SP3, Equinix currently operates five IBX data centers
in Brazil. [press release]

o Frankfurt – Frankfurt is one of Europe’s leading financial
centers and a hub for banking, commerce and manufacturing.  Equinix’s
IBX data centers in Frankfurt offer dense concentrations of telecommunications,
cloud and IT services, financial services and manufacturing companies. 
Equinix’s sixth IBX in Frankfurt, FR6, is expected to open in Q2 2017 and is a
new build that will be part of Campus Kleyer, one of the most carrier dense
digital locations in EMEA.  The first phase of FR6 will add 1,325 cabinets
and more than  72,000 gross square feet of data center space in
2017. 

o Amsterdam – The AM4 IBX, expected to open in Q3 2017, is
a new 12-story building that expands Equinix’s Amsterdam footprint which
currently consists of seven sites.  The first phase of AM4 will add 1,555
cabinets and more than 245,000 gross square feet of data center space in
2017.  At its existing sites in Amsterdam, Equinix currently offers
connections to 80% of Europe within 50 milliseconds and is one of the most
cloud dense locations in Europe.  Equinix’s Amsterdam operations also
offer the opportunity to connect to large numbers of enterprises, content and
digital media companies and providers of financial, cloud and IT services, and
Internet service providers.

o Silicon Valley – Located adjacent to its existing SV1 and
SV5 IBX data centers at Equinix’s San Jose Great Oaks campus, SV10 is expected
to open in Q2 2017.  The first phase of SV10 will add 795 cabinets and
more than 190,000 gross square feet of data center space in 2017.  It is
the first build on 11 acres of land purchased by Equinix in 2016.  Equinix
data centers in the Silicon Valley area serve 600+ customers and represent the
largest retail colocation footprint and densest interconnectivity in the
Silicon Valley region, with many mature business ecosystems to match customers
with the right business partners.

o Washington, D.C. – The DC12 IBX, expected to open in Q3
2017, is an extension to Equinix’s existing Ashburn campus.  The first
phase of DC12 will add 1,275 cabinets and more than 190,000 gross square feet
of data center space in 2017.  It is the first build on 44 acres of land
purchased by Equinix in 2012.  Equinix currently operates 10 IBX data
centers in the Washington, D.C. metro with more than 500,000 square feet of
colocation space.  These facilities are a major communications gateway to
Europe and the largest Internet peering point in North America.

·  2017 Expansions of Existing IBX Data Centers
— In addition to
the five new IBX openings in 2017, Equinix expansions of existing IBX data
centers include 14 projects that will open in 2017 in Amsterdam, Dallas, Dubai,
Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro,
Singapore, Toronto and Zurich.

Additional Expansion
Activity

·  Land Acquisition for Future Development – As announced on March 2, Equinix
has acquired 34.5 acres of undeveloped land in Ashburn, VA to further expand
the company’s data center and interconnection campus, which currently consists
of eight IBX data centers.  The acquisition of this property will provide
Equinix with room to build multiple new greenfield IBX data centers in this
densely interconnected location.[press release]

·  Acquisition of London Data Center – As announced on February 6, Equinix
has purchased IO UK’s data center operating business in Slough, United
Kingdom. The facility, which will be renamed LD10, is in close proximity to
Equinix’s existing Slough data center campus.  This addition
will grow the number of data centers in London to eight, and with the existing
footprint of four data centers in Manchester, it will help meet growing demand
for digital infrastructure connectivity in the United
Kingdom and Europe. [press release]

·  Acquisition of Zurich Data Center – As announced on February 28,
Equinix has entered into an agreement for the purchase of ICT-Center AG,
Zurich’s data center operating business in Zurich, Switzerland. The facility,
which is adjacent to Equinix’s existing Zurich IBX data centers – ZH2 and ZH4 –
provides Equinix with the ability to expand its ZH4 IBX data center to further
enable interconnection in this key European metro. [press release]

Key Facts

·  Moving to the Digital Edge – IDC projects that more data-driven and
analytically-oriented organizations that transform at the digital edge and the
digital multi-cloud core will achieve $2 trillion in extra benefits in the form
of increased revenue, lower costs, and improved productivity over the next five
years. 1   Exemplifying this trend, as of Q4 2016,
82% of Equinix’s recurring revenue is from customers in multiple metros, many
of whom are looking to reach people, clouds and data at the edge by deploying
at Equinix IBX data centers.  

·  Equinix Today — Equinix currently operates 150 IBX data
centers in 21 countries and 41 metros across 14 million gross square feet of
data center space.  With more than 230,000 cross-connects that
interconnect companies within the Equinix ecosystem, the company has more than
8,500 customers, including more than 1,400 networks and more than 2,700 cloud
and IT service providers.  Equinix customers include over one-third of the
Fortune 500 and a quarter of the Forbes Global 2000.

Quotes

·  Steve Smith, CEO, Equinix

“The transformative impact of the shift to
digital is touching every company and requiring an IT infrastructure that can
accommodate this new reality.  As a result, companies are seeking to bring
their data to the digital edge — closer to customers, employees and strategic
partners.  The globally consistent footprint of Equinix, combined with its
ability to facilitate the critical interconnection between companies, is
enabling this shift, creating opportunity for business growth in a rapidly
changing digital world.”

·  Munu Gandhi, Vice President, Network Services,
Aon

“Equinix’s commitment to global expansion
provides opportunities for companies like Aon to interconnect with strategic
partners to drive our digital transformation. With Equinix, we know that
we have a partner that is in metros critical to our operations and can scale to
meet the increasing demands of our growing digital business.”

·  Rick Villars, Vice President, Data Center and
Cloud, IDC

“In this Cloud 2.0
era, everything that matters is delivered via cloud. Therefore, when everything
is in the cloud, the cloud must be everywhere. For enterprises, secure, direct
connectivity to clouds everywhere has become paramount, and Equinix’s focus on
providing on ramps to clouds is positioning it well to meet this need. Its
plans for expansion will allow it to offer customers more dynamic connectivity.
It will also allow Equinix to address customers’ need for greater access to the
edge where enterprises must create a foundation for universal data control and
cloud-ready asset management.”

1 IDC White Paper
sponsored by Equinix, “Rethinking the Datacenter with Interconnection to Meet
the Data-Driven Business Challenges of the 3rd Platform Era,” January 2017, Doc
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