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I am quite surprised about this given space requirements. When I visited Equinix HKG1 it was on the 14th floor of a shared office building and space seemed very
by sitepodmatt 9y ago
I am quite surprised about this given space requirements. When I visited Equinix HKG1 it was on the 14th floor of a shared office building and space seemed very limited, most customers seemed to use it just as a network POP judging what you can see through rack doors. Rented floor, 4GS security guys, pen and paper sign in. Perhaps in other locations they own the building and have large spaces to accomodate large clouds.
- kasey_junk 9y agoEquinix runs some gigantic data centers and high value ones as well. The Chicago/Cermak data center hosted essentially all oil futures trading in the states until the CME got into the hosting business. Last I looked they were approaching 200 data centers. There is going to be a bit of variance amongst that many.
- tw04 9y agoEquinix was originally what is best described as the Switzerland of network interconnection. They were simply a meeting point for various isps to get cross connects in a neutral facility. As such, floor space in what I would call the legacy equinix is at quite a premium. In the last few years however, they have branched out. They've made several acquisitions to provide more traditional DC facilities for general purpose compute and storage. Not just network interconnects.