Data Centre Magazine October 2025 | Page 74

“WE ARE CONFIDENT IN EQUINIX’ S TRAJECTORY AND THE STRENGTH OF OUR DISTINCT AND RESILIENT MARKET POSITION”

Adaire Fox-Martin, CEO and President, Equinix
“ AI is now infrastructure, and this infrastructure, just like the internet, just like electricity, needs factories,” he explains.
“ These factories are essentially what we build today. They’ re not data centres of the past. These AI data centres, if you will, are improperly described. They are, in fact, AI factories. You apply energy to it, and it produces something incredibly valuable, and these things are called tokens”.
Jensen’ s framing reflects the unique role of contemporary data centres – not merely as digital warehouses, but as engines of economic and technological productivity, reshaped to synthesise intelligence at scale.
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