Randy Brouckman CEO EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX named the category. When the company launched in 2009, the vision was simple: construct data centres where the company’ s customers actually required them. It began building edge facilities in American tier-two markets from 2013, when the industry’ s centre of gravity sat in Ashburn and Santa Clara. What it scales today looks rather different, and the shift is the instructive part.
As the hyperscalers scaled from 2016, EdgeConneX followed them up the size curve.“ The form factor didn’ t matter,” says CEO Randy Brouckman.“ Two megawatts, 20 megawatts, 200 megawatts or far larger; we could do it and just say,‘ Hey, where do you want to go?’”
The company now runs Build-to-Suit and Build-to-Density formats spanning 40kW retail deployments to campuses of 500MW or more, across more than 80 sites live or in the pipeline, spanning more than 50 markets.
EQT, which acquired the business in 2020, says capacity has more than tripled since. Japan shows the pace: entering the market in January 2025, EdgeConneX assembled a 350MW platform across two Greater Osaka sites within eighteen months.
The customer-led demand has seen the company expand into markets the majors had typically ignored, which is the bet EdgeConneX placed first and has since scaled into. Power is now its binding constraint. The company works directly with EQT’ s power and network portfolio companies to secure capacity ahead of demand rather than chasing it afterwards, which is increasingly the discipline that determines who scales next.
90 August 2026