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GUEST OPINION: The 2024 Olympics in Paris has captured the world’s enthusiasm. Behind this global spectacle, the city of Paris underwent a green makeover to coincide with the Olympics. Gone are the days of spending billions on entire Olympic Parks. In fact, just two new permanent sports facilities have been constructed: the Aquatic Centre and Le Bourget Climbing Wall.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has invested US$124 million in its International Business Exchange data centre in Hong Kong.

GUEST OPINION: Sustainability is becoming a bigger driver of IT buying decisions, thanks to increasing regulation on climate reporting as well as growing consumer and investor demands. Environmental responsibility is an imperative for businesses now, and IT operations can be a big contributor to a company’s environmental impact—sometimes the biggest contributor.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix plans to enter the Philippine market by acquiring three data centres from technology solutions provider Total Information Management (TIM).

Digital infrastructure company Equinix announced its expansion into Chennai with its first International Business Exchange data centre CN1 to support India’s goal of becoming a US$1 trillion digital economy by 2027-2028.

Equinix tackles AI-related IT challenges with over 4,000 cabinets in Sydney and Melbourne

COMPANY NEWS:  To support the rising need for high-density power, advanced cooling and interconnection as demand for digital infrastructure accelerates including artificial intelligence (AI), Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company®, invested AU$240 million (approx. US$160 million) to add a total of 4,175 cabinets to two of its International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centres - SY5 in Sydney and ME2 in Melbourne.

COMPANY NEWS: Sunday 23 June is the eleventh year of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED).

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has opened two IBX data centres in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) in Malaysia, establishing a digital infrastructure in the country to support its digital economy ambition to become a regional digital hub.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix signed its first renewable energy power purchase agreement in Singapore with Sembcorp Industries, an energy and urban solutions provider, which will see the offtake from a 75 megawatt-peak (MWp) solar energy project.

COMPANY NEWS: Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company, has released its 2023 Integrated Sustainability Report reflecting progress towards its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Equinix's approach to sustainability is rooted in ambitious targets, transparency in reporting progress, upholding ethical principles and integrity, and actively collaborating with stakeholders to foster transformative change.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix and real estate investment and financing arm of PGIM, PGIM Real Estate, have announced a US$600 million joint venture to develop and operate the first xScale data centre in the US in Silicon Valley, California.

GUEST OPINION: Most people don’t think about data centres during their day-to-day lives. Even as they use the internet for entertainment, directions, banking, shopping, and more, they don’t consider that there are physical buildings somewhere that enable all of that. The term “cloud computing” actually has some believing all of that “magic” is happening somewhere out in the atmosphere.

GUEST OPINION: Today, 8 March, is International Women's Day. Below, executives share their thoughts and comments on the representation of women and how they fare in the tech industry.

Under a program to reduce energy costs and help address climate change, digital infrastructure company Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne, bringing additional clean power to local grids where Equinix operates.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) totalling 151 megawatts (MW) with clean energy enterprise TagEnergy.

GUEST OPINION: If one thing is certain in 2024, it is that technology will continue to drive remarkable advancements.

GUEST RESEARCH: By 2026, 80% of new enterprise digital infrastructure investment is forecast to be operated through a subscription-based model, according to the Global Interconnection Index (GXI) 2024.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix announced a private cloud service that enterprises can run to acquire and manage their own Nvidia DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix unveiled the Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a new virtual routing service to help businesses connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise deployments.

Equinix recently hosted its third Equinix Women in Tech Luncheon for Australian partners and customers across Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The Sydney event was joined by Tracey Spicer, who discussed her groundbreaking new book, Man-Made.