CLOUD & COLOCATION
The company’ s recent results also show that demand is rising. In Q3 2025, Equinix reported more than 499,000 total interconnections across its footprint and 7,100 net new physical and virtual connections in the quarter. That scale matters for managed colocation because customers are not only buying space and power, they are buying access to ecosystems that reduce complexity for cloud on-ramps, partners and distributed applications.
Why many enterprises favour managed colocation For large enterprises, managed colocation is increasingly a way to keep critical workloads close to users and partners while shifting day-to-day infrastructure management to a specialist. Equinix has continued to frame its value around this combination of proximity and connectivity, particularly as AI and non-AI workloads drive demand for lower-latency infrastructure. The model is attractive to organisations that need predictable control over hardware, compliance and resilience but do not want to build out and operate every site themselves.
Recent company commentary also points to the balance Equinix is trying to strike between scale and customer choice. Adaire Fox-Martin said in February 2026 that Equinix had delivered“ record capacity in 2025” while continuing to expand to meet demand across the business. That is relevant to managed colocation because capacity growth is only useful if it can be delivered in markets where customers actually need it, and with enough flexibility to support differing power and connectivity profiles.
102 May 2026