Redwood City, California, United States
Equinix
The world's largest independent colocation and interconnection operator - not a cloud provider itself, but the neutral ground where clouds, carriers and enterprises physically connect to each other, including at its Dubai campus.
Where it sits in the stack
- User - Equinix does not work at this layer
- Application - Equinix does not work at this layer
- Model - Equinix does not work at this layer
- Inference - Equinix does not work at this layer
- Compute - Equinix does not work at this layer
- GPU - Equinix does not work at this layer
- Data CentreThe building - Equinix works at this layer
- Power & NetworkElectricity and connectivity - Equinix works at this layer
Has a site in the UAE
Equinix operates three Dubai data centres (DX1, DX2 and a third opened in 2023) plus a facility in Abu Dhabi; the Dubai campus also hosts the UAE Internet Exchange.
- UAE - Dubai (DX1, DX2, DX3) and Abu Dhabi
What it offers
Dubai IBX Data Centres
A colocation and interconnection campus in Dubai, host to the UAE Internet Exchange (UAE-IX).
Abu Dhabi Data Centre
Equinix's Abu Dhabi colocation facility.
What it can do
- Carrier-neutral interconnection between clouds, ISPs and enterprises
- Hosts the UAE Internet Exchange in Dubai
- Independent of any single cloud provider
What its 2 layers mean
- Data Centre
The physical building - racks, servers, cooling - where everything above this actually lives. An AI model has no existence outside a room full of running machines.
- Power & Network
Everything above this needs two things nobody thinks about until they run out: electricity to run and cool the machines, and network links fast enough to move data between them.
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