Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought
Mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new wholesale data center initiative has been 100MW per year, but one of the company’s top executives told Data Center Knowledge that the sales pipeline for HIT is already 400MW
• HIT, which stands for Hyperscale Infrastructure Team, is part of the retail colocation giant’s strategy to reel in the next wave of data center deployments by the largest cloud and SaaS providers, who are expected to attract more enterprise business
• Leading HIT is Jim Smith, former CTO of Digital Realty Trust, which has a similar strategy