With more than 210 data centres in 25 countries on five continents , the Equinix brand has become synonymous with colocation and cloud-based data centre services over the past two decades , representing one of the largest and fastest-growing players in the data centre real estate sector . Headquartered in Redwood City , California , Equinix restructured itself as a REIT back in January 2015 . Since then , the company has grown dramatically , both through acquisitions and construction projects . In October , Equinix completed a $ 780mn acquisition of 13 Canadian data centres from Bell , bringing its total footprint in the country to 15 . Later in 2020 , the company opened a string of new international business exchanges ( IBX ), including its first IBX in the Sultanate of Oman , its fifth facility in Singapore , and two new facilities in the Northern Virginia / Washington DC area , which together represented an investment of more than $ 200mn in real estate and construction .

73 datacentremagazine . com