Equinix

Equinix has spent more than a decade turning private connections among data centres, clouds and network services into software-addressable products. Its 2026 push into agent-assisted operations and geographic path controls makes the platform more useful, while making the ports, providers and permissions beneath it more consequential.

Equinix and A2A will reuse waste heat from a Milan data centre to heat thousands of homes, highlighting how digital infrastructure is becoming part of wider urban energy and decarbonisation strategies.

What happened: Equinix buys BT’s datacentre business BT Group announces the sale of its Irish datacentre business, including two facilities in Dublin, to Equinix for approximately $63 million. This strategic move aligns with BT’s ‘asset-light strategy’, allowing the company to focus on its core stre…

Zayo Europe adds two Tier 1 IP PoPs in Warsaw, linking Equinix WA1 and Atman WAW-2 into its European backbone.

Data centre design is shifting from industrial boxes to civic infrastructure as operators use architecture to win urban acceptance.

Registry or routing changes involving AS210744 can directly affect IP reachability for enterprise cloud customers dependent on BIOS Middle East. Because the LIR is the administrative anchor for routing policy, any stale or conflicting WHOIS entries could misdirect abuse reports or break route validation, while a prefix hijack could blackhole traffic to managed cloud, disaster recovery, and backup infrastructure. The acquisition by ZainTECH adds a corporate restructuring dimension that could trig

Tracked for relevance to Equinix interconnection ecosystems, network service provider relationships, AI/HPC infrastructure demand, managed services, virtual infrastructure, and carrier-neutral digital infrastructure markets.