Equinix (EQIX) investor relations material

Business performance and growth drivers

• Achieved record bookings in Q4 and 27% year-over-year bookings growth for 2025, with Q4 bookings up over 40% from the prior year.

• Customer demand is broad-based across service providers and enterprises, with 4,500 deals from 3,400 customers.

• Operating margins continue to improve, supported by efficient treasury and capital management.

• 2026 guidance exceeded market expectations, reflecting strong momentum.

Strategic priorities and AI trends

• Focused on meeting rising AI-driven customer demand, especially for inference workloads.

• Increased CapEx intensity to support enterprise AI use cases and durable value creation.

• Pre-selling more capacity than ever to inform development pipeline and stay ahead of demand.

• Driving digital transformation internally to improve efficiency and flatten cost growth.

• Maintaining a strong balance sheet to support multi-year construction cycles.

Latency, throughput, and infrastructure

• Data centers are strategically located in 77 metros across 37 countries to minimize latency and maximize throughput.

• 90% of the world's population is within 10 milliseconds of a facility, enabling support for latency-sensitive workloads like trading and gaming.

• AI and machine-to-machine workloads are increasing throughput requirements, prompting network upgrades to 400 Gig ports.