Equinix
Internet and data center company
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| February 2025 | Equinix collaborated with designer Maximilian Raynor to create a dress from repurposed data center equipment, revealed at London Fashion Week pre-show. |
| 2024 | Sustainability Magazine named Equinix among the Top 10 sustainable data centre providers. Equinix began a heat export program to repurpose residual heat from data centers for use in nearby buildings. |
| 2024 | Equinix partnered with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Singapore's GIC to develop new data centers, anticipating demand from the artificial intelligence boom. |
| November 2022 | Equinix announced market entry into Malaysia, planning to build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Iskandar Puteri with an initial investment of approximately $40 million. |
| March 2022 | Equinix expanded into Chile and Peru with a $758 million acquisition of four data centers from Entel. |
| December 7 2021 | Equinix announced the acquisition of Main One, a West African data center and connectivity solutions provider, for $320 million. |
| January 2021 | Equinix joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, committing to make their data centers climate neutral by 2030. |
| November 2020 | The EPA awarded Equinix the 2020 Green Power Partner of the Year award. |
| September 2020 | Equinix shifted its branding, describing itself as a 'digital infrastructure company'. |
| September 2020 | Equinix priced $1.35 billion in green bonds to finance new and existing green projects and announced a Green Finance Framework to standardize transparency reporting for green debt disclosures. |
| August 2020 | Equinix expanded into India by acquiring GPX India, including a campus in Mumbai with two data centers. |
| 2019 | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named Equinix one of 17 Green Power Partners leading the transition to renewable energy. |
| 2018 | Equinix signed three contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, providing technology support equipment totaling over $5 million. |
| 2018 | Equinix purchased the Dallas Infomart building and acquired Australian data center provider Metronode with 10 data centers. |
| 2017 | Equinix launched its own data center infrastructure management platform called IBX SmartView, demonstrating the company's technological innovation in data center management. |
| 2016 | Equinix opened new data centers in Dallas, Sydney, and Tokyo, and announced a deal to acquire 29 data centers from Verizon in 15 markets. |
| 2015 | Equinix made a long-term pledge to power its entire data center platform with clean and renewable energy, signing deals with wind farms in Texas and Oklahoma to offset energy consumption of its North American data center portfolio. |
| May 2015 | Equinix announced the purchase of British company TelecityGroup, its largest acquisition to date, valued at approximately $3.8 billion. |
| January 2015 | Equinix converted to a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), changing its corporate structure and tax status. |
| 2014 | Greenpeace criticized Equinix for insufficient commitment to renewable energy and carbon emissions mitigation in an annual report. |
| 2013 | Equinix expanded to the Middle East. |
| 2012 | Equinix extended operations to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and acquired Hong Kong-based data center provider Asia-Tone. |
| 2011 | Equinix expanded to Latin America. |
| 2010 | Equinix opened its 50th data center in London and purchased Switch and Data Facilities Company, Inc., a U.S. internet exchange and colocation services provider. |
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