Equinix, Inc.
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ITEM 1. Business
Overview: Enabling Innovation for the Digital World
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company, shortening the path to boundless connectivity anywhere in the world to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. Equinix combines a global footprint of International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) and xScaleTM data centers in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa ("EMEA") regions, infrastructure and interconnection offerings, and digital ecosystems required to serve a large and diverse set of customers around the world.
Equinix was incorporated on June 22, 1998 as a Delaware corporation and operates as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. Since our inception, Equinix has been a network-neutral, multi-tenant data center ("MTDC") provider, where competing networks could connect and share data traffic to help scale the rapid growth of the early internet. The company’s name, Equinix (composed from the words "equality," "neutrality" and "internet exchange"), reflects that vision. The founders believed they not only had the opportunity, but also the responsibility, to create a company that would be the steward of some of the most important digital infrastructure assets in the world. Twenty-seven years later, we have expanded upon that vision by connecting economies, countries, enterprises and communities with seamless digital experiences, including cutting-edge artificial intelligence ("AI").
Our data centers around the world allow our customers to bring together and interconnect the infrastructure they need to seamlessly operate their business. With Equinix, they can scale with speed and agility, accelerate the launch of new digital offerings while safeguarding data, and implement AI applications at scale to achieve business success. We enable customers to simplify their digital infrastructure, ensure interoperability across platforms, and maximize speed, efficiency and security to deliver superior customer, partner and employee experiences. As more customers choose Equinix for high connectivity and performance reliability at the metro edge, it benefits their suppliers and business partners to colocate in the same data centers and connect directly with each other. This adjacency creates a network effect that attracts new customers while continuously enhancing our value proposition to existing customers and enabling them to capture further economic and performance benefits from our offerings.
Our Competitive Advantage
The digital economy continues to accelerate as AI, data-intensive workloads, and ecosystem-based business models reshape how industries operate. Organizations continue to shift from siloed digital adoption toward interconnected systems where data, digital services, and workflows flow smoothly across partners and platforms. Equinix is uniquely positioned to capture the increasing demand for these infrastructure solutions. Trends reinforcing our leading market position include:
•Scaled global presence: As the world becomes increasingly digital across geographies, organizations will need to partner and collaborate with an infrastructure provider that can satisfy their requirements in a globally consistent manner. Our extensive global footprint spans 280 data centers, in 77 markets in 36 countries. Data sovereignty, security and latency requirements are increasing, requiring a distributed and local metro footprint. This further positions us as a global trusted vendor to our current and prospective customers.
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•The requirement of hybrid architectures: Industries are moving from linear value chains to hybrid digital ecosystems. Service providers supply cloud and AI infrastructure, services across payments, cybersecurity and other domains, and industry-specific platforms and applications, while enterprise consumers assemble these capabilities into operational stacks that drive innovation and scale. These comprehensive solutions require a hybrid of enterprise-owned infrastructure combined with networking to a diverse set of service providers. With over 10,500 customers, including 2,000+ network service providers and a leading market share of cloud-on ramps, our position is unmatched in the industry.
•The interconnection imperative: Growing digital complexity and real-time operational demands require secure, low-latency private interconnection across clouds, networks, partners, and data sources. Critical workflows—including digital payments, supply chain telemetry, smart manufacturing, telemedicine, and AI inference—depend on high-performance connectivity. Interconnection has become essential for resiliency, regulatory compliance, and collaboration across increasingly distributed digital ecosystems. Over our 27-year history, we have curated a diverse, industry-leading ecosystem of more than 500,000 interconnections.
•AI as a catalyst for ecosystem acceleration: AI adoption is increasing the need for distributed, interconnected digital infrastructure. Training, inference, and model coordination require dense data exchange across cloud and edge environments. AI-driven use cases—spanning fraud detection, predictive maintenance, connected mobility, personalized retail, energy optimization and agentic connectivity—depend on secure, low-latency pathways. As AI integrates into mission-critical workflows, multi-directional, low-latency connectivity becomes essential. Equinix has curated a leading AI ecosystem of model providers, data platforms, neoclouds and gateways to serve the AI requirements of enterprises.
•Sustainability, resource efficiency and intelligent infrastructure management: Rising digital demand—driven by AI, cloud growth, and global data proliferation—is heightening expectations for environmental accountability. Digital value networks support more efficient operations through innovations in high-density compute, AI-optimized cooling, grid-interactive systems, renewable integration, and telemetry-driven management. Intelligent infrastructure is becoming critical to meeting sustainability goals while supporting expanding digital workloads.
Equinix Business Proposition
In 2025, we continued to build new offerings to further our mission to make digital infrastructure more powerful, accessible and sustainable. At Equinix, businesses can reach strategic markets with scalable, manageable infrastructure that blends physical and virtual options on our one-of-a-kind global ecosystem. We enable competitive advantage for our customers and partners by creating the foundational infrastructure capabilities that harness innovation and create value. We offer a comprehensive, integrated suite of infrastructure and interconnection solutions, with global, state-of-the-art data centers which meet strict standards of security, reliability, certification and sustainability. Our footprint consists of 280 data centers worldwide, including:
•IBX Data Centers are our carrier-neutral colocation data centers, providing our customers with the secure, reliable and robust environments (including space and power) necessary to aggregate and distribute information and connect digital and business ecosystems globally. IBX data centers provide access to vital ecosystems where enterprises, network, cloud and SaaS providers, and business partners, can directly and securely interconnect to each other.
•xScale Data Centers are designed to serve the unique core workload deployment needs of a targeted group of hyperscale companies, which include the world's largest cloud service providers. Hyperscalers require infrastructure to support demanding workload requirements for cloud and AI initiatives. With xScale data centers, which are developed and operated through our joint venture partnership arrangements, hyperscale customers add to their core hyperscale data center deployments and existing customer access points at Equinix, allowing streamlined expansion with a single global vendor.
The following are Equinix's primary revenue-generating products and other offerings:
Infrastructure Offerings
Equinix infrastructure offerings include a suite of comprehensive solutions that provide all the components required by a customer to house its IT infrastructure or equipment. These offerings are designed to speed and streamline data center deployments for our customers. These offerings are typically billed based on the space and power a customer consumes in our IBX data centers, are delivered under a fixed duration contract and generate monthly recurring revenue ("MRR").
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•Private Cages are typically designed and built to order for a single customer, with space assigned based on purchased power allocations and planned cabinet quantity. A cage typically includes steel mesh walls with a locking door, interconnection provision such as a demarcation rack with patch panels, and cabling systems such as a ladder rack and fiber raceway. Available security accessories include dedicated cameras, biometric hand scanners and more.
•Secure Cabinets are steel-framed cabinets sized to industry standards and typically configured to order, with lockable, fully ventilated doors. Secure cabinets provide a private, secure, smaller-footprint alternative to a Private Cage. Each cabinet includes an integrated, interconnection-ready demarcation panel and power circuitry sufficient to support planned utilization requirements. Secure cabinets are typically housed in a shared, secured cage within the data center facility.
•Secure Cabinet Express are ready for service secure cabinets that are preconfigured to fit Equinix recommendations and most modern IT deployment requirements, providing a simplified and globally consistent colocation module for cabinet-sized deployments.
Equinix offers a variety of enabling solutions that support a customer's need to implement, operate and maintain its colocated deployments. These solutions include both on-consumption and subscription services that may generate MRR as well as non-recurring revenue ("NRR").
•Equinix Smart View® is a fully integrated monitoring software that provides customers visibility into the operating data relevant to their specific Equinix footprint as if they were in-house. The software provides online access to real-time environmental and operating data through the Equinix Customer Portal or via either REST (application programming interfaces ("APIs") that provide customers the ability to retrieve information about their assets from every IBX location) or streaming API integrations. With real-time alerts and configurable reporting, Equinix SmartView allows customers to maintain their IBX operations and plan for future growth.
•Equinix Smart Hands® provides around-the-clock, on-site operational support service for remote management, installation and troubleshooting of customer data center equipment. Using Equinix IBX data center technicians, Smart Hands allows customers to manage their data center operations from anywhere in the world.
•Equinix Smart Build ("ESB") provides customers with an easy way to accelerate and simplify world-class data center deployments with expert support. ESBs are repeatable, proven processes that address larger, more complex data center jobs, including installation and implementation of new builds and planned migrations. ESB practices deliver Equinix expertise in colocation design to optimize our customers’ data center needs, including structured cabling, labeling and documentation, procurement recommendations and coordination, and secure de-installation.
•Equinix Managed Solutions and Enablement Services offer flexible and easy-to-consume managed platforms for cloud, storage, backup and firewall, built on top of neutral, leading technology. Combined with simplified implementation of Equinix Fabric and Network Edge, these managed services leverage customer hybrid and multicloud experiences, allowing organizations to prioritize their core business functions.
Interconnection Offerings
Our interconnection solutions connect businesses directly, securely and dynamically within and between our data centers across our global platform. These solutions are typically billed based on the outbound connections from a customer and generate MRR.
•Equinix Fabric® provides secure, on-demand, software-defined interconnection. Built specifically for digital infrastructure, Equinix Fabric enables businesses to connect globally to their choice of thousands of networking, storage, compute and application service providers in the industry’s largest infrastructure ecosystem. As the foundation of Equinix’s interconnection capability, Equinix Fabric also enables customers to quickly and easily connect between the physical and virtual digital infrastructures they have deployed in Equinix data centers globally.
•Equinix Fabric Cloud Router makes it easy to connect applications and data across different clouds. With high-performance and secure private connections, protecting data from exposure to the public internet, these enterprise-grade connections offer virtually unlimited bandwidth and built-in resiliency. Fabric Cloud Router also reduces networking costs, lowers cloud egress charges and enables elastic bandwidth consumption so customers pay for only what they need.
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•Equinix Cross Connects provide a point-to-point cable link between two Equinix customers in the same data center. Cross connects deliver fast, convenient, affordable and highly reliable connectivity and data exchange with business partners and service providers within the Equinix ecosystem.
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| Item 2. | Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
The information in this discussion contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. For example, the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Our actual results and the timing of certain events may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those discussed in "Liquidity and Capital Resources" below and "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of Part II of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements in this document are based on information available to us as of the date of this Report and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.
Our management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is intended to assist readers in understanding our financial information from our management's perspective and is presented as follows:
•Overview
•Results of Operations
•Non-GAAP Financial Measures
•Liquidity and Capital Resources
•Critical Accounting Estimates
•Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Overview
We provide a global, vendor-neutral data center, interconnection and edge solutions platform with offerings that enable our customers to reach everywhere, interconnect everyone and integrate everything. We connect economies, countries, enterprises and communities, delivering seamless digital experiences and cutting-edge artificial intelligence (“AI")— quickly, efficiently and with high service reliability.
Global enterprises, service providers and business ecosystems of industry partners rely on our IBX data centers and expertise around the world for the safe housing of their critical IT equipment and to protect and connect the world's most valued information assets. They also look to Equinix for the ability to directly and securely interconnect to the networks, clouds and content that enable today's information-driven global digital economy. Our recent IBX data center openings and acquisitions, as well as xScaleTM data center investments, have expanded our total global footprint to 281 data centers, including 23 xScale data centers and the MC1 and SN1 data centers that are held in unconsolidated joint ventures, across 77 markets around the world. We offer the following solutions:
•premium data center colocation;
•physical and virtual interconnection and data exchange solutions;
•edge solutions for deploying networking, security and hardware; and
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•remote expert support and professional services.
Our data centers around the world allow our customers to bring together and interconnect the infrastructure they need to seamlessly operate their business. With Equinix, they can scale with speed and agility, accelerate the launch of new digital offerings while safeguarding data, and implement AI applications at scale to achieve business success. We enable customers to simplify their digital infrastructure, ensure interoperability across platforms, and maximize speed, efficiency and security to deliver superior customer, partner and employee experiences. The Equinix global platform, and the quality of our offerings, have enabled us to establish a critical mass of customers. As more customers choose Equinix for high connectivity and performance reliability at the metro edge, it benefits their suppliers and business partners to colocate in the same data centers and connect directly with each other. This adjacency creates a network effect that attracts new customers while continuously enhancing our value proposition to existing customers and enabling them to capture further economic and performance benefits from our offerings.
Competitive Landscape
While a large number of enterprises and service providers, such as hyperscale cloud service providers, own their own data centers, we believe enterprises are shifting away from single-tenant solutions toward those that enable customers to outsource some or all of their IT infrastructure and interconnection requirements to third-party facilities, such as those operated by Equinix. This shift is being accelerated by the proliferation of hybrid multi-cloud architectures and the adoption of AI.
Historically, the outsourcing market was served by large telecommunications carriers that bundled their products and services with their colocation offerings. The data center market landscape has since evolved to include private and carrier-neutral multi-tenant data centers ("MTDC"), public and private cloud providers, managed infrastructure and application hosting providers, large hyperscale cloud providers and systems integrators. As a result, the global MTDC market is large and remains highly fragmented—with significant long-term growth opportunities for providers that can bundle various colocation, interconnection and network offerings, outsourced IT infrastructure solutions and managed services.
Equinix has a highly differentiated offering in this large and growing market. Our global platform reaches 36 countries and connects the industry’s largest and most active ecosystem of partners across our sites, including access to a leading share of cloud on-ramps and an increasingly diverse ecosystem of networks and cloud and IT service providers. This ecosystem creates a network effect that improves performance and lowers the cost for our customers, enabling them to innovate and fast-track digital transformation. This is a significant source of competitive advantage for Equinix—particularly as AI and cloud innovations fuel workload demands for hyperscale infrastructure and optimization across enterprises. Our scalable, neutral, global platform offers one-of-a-kind solutions to the most pressing digital challenges customers face. Our platform enables customers to bring together physical and programmable technologies like compute, storage, network, AI and applications to build the foundation for their company's digital success.
Annualized Gross Bookings
Annualized Gross Bookings represents the annualized revenue impact of stated monthly recurring revenues ("MRR") on newly executed contracts with a term of 12 months or more, net of any MRR decreases from cancellations or terminations associated with the new contracts and adjusted for the impact of pricing changes on existing contracts. This measure excludes contracts for recurring revenue from our joint ventures and the impact of power price adjustments. This measure only includes contracts that we anticipate will start generating revenue within 90 days. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we had total Annualized Gross Bookings of $378 million, up 9% from three months ended March 31, 2025. This growth reflects an increase in customer demand and in our ability to capture that demand across our global platform.
Capacity Trends
Our cabinet utilization rate represents the percentage of cabinet space billed versus total cabinet capacity, which is used to measure how efficiently we are managing our cabinet capacity. Our cabinet utilization rate varies from market to market among our IBX data centers across our Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Our cabinet utilization rates were approximately 77% and 78% as of March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. We continue to monitor the available capacity in each of our selected markets. To the extent we have limited capacity available in a given market, it may limit our ability for growth in that market. We perform demand studies on an ongoing basis to determine if future expansion is warranted in a market. In addition, power and cooling requirements for most customers are growing on a per unit basis. As a result, customers are consuming
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an increasing amount of power per cabinet. Although we generally do not control the amount of power our customers draw from installed circuits, we have negotiated power consumption limitations with certain high power-demand customers. This increased power consumption, which we expect to accelerate with the adoption of AI, has driven us to build out our new IBX data centers to support power and cooling needs twice that of previous IBX data centers. We could face power limitations in our existing IBX data centers, even though we may have additional physical cabinet capacity available within a specific IBX data center, and in our ability to expand our footprint in existing and new markets. Additionally, global supply chain challenges could result in a lack of availability or delays in the delivery of data center equipment. These challenges have driven us to invest in and commit to future purchases in advance of our standard practice to mitigate risks associated with these supply chain issues. These constraints could have a negative impact on our ability to grow revenues, affecting our financial performance, results of operations and cash flows and the growth opportunities presented by the adoption of new technologies, including AI.
Expansion Opportunities
To serve the needs of the growing hyperscale data center market, including the world's largest cloud service providers and increased demand driven in part by the adoption of AI, we continue to look at attractive opportunities to grow our market share and selectively improve our footprint and offerings. As was the case with our recent expansions and acquisitions, our expansion criteria will be dependent on a number of factors, including but not limited to demand from new and existing customers, power availability and capacity, quality of the design, access to networks, clouds and software partners, capacity availability in the current market location, amount of incremental investment required by us in the targeted property, automation capabilities, developer talent pool, lead-time to break even on a free cash flow basis and in-place customers. Like our recent expansions and acquisitions, the right combination of these factors may be attractive to us. In addition, to serve the growing hyperscale requirements, we have entered into joint venture partnership arrangements across our Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions to develop and operate xScale data centers. Depending on the circumstances, these transactions may require additional capital expenditures funded by upfront cash payments or through long-term financing arrangements in order to bring these properties up to our standards. Property expansion may be in the form of purchases of real property, long-term leasing arrangements or acquisitions. Future purchases, construction or acquisitions may be completed by us or with partners or potential customers to minimize the outlay of cash, which can be significant.
Revenue
Our business is primarily based on a recurring revenue model comprised of colocation, interconnection and managed infrastructure offerings. We consider these offerings recurring because our customers are generally billed on a fixed and recurring basis each month for the duration of their contract, which is generally one to five years in length and thereafter automatically renews in one-year increments. Our recurring revenues have comprised more than 90% of our total revenues during the past three years. In addition, during the past three years, more than 90% of our monthly recurring revenue bookings came from existing customers, contributing to our revenue growth. Our largest customer accounted for approximately 2% of our recurring revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 3% for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Our 50 largest customers accounted for approximately 36% of our recurring revenues for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
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Our non-recurring revenues are primarily derived from fees charged on installations related to a customer's initial deployment and professional services we perform for our customers, including our joint ventures. Non-recurring installation fees, although generally paid upfront upon installation, are deferred and recognized ratably over the contract term. Professional service fees are recognized in the period when the services are provided. Additionally, revenue from contract settlements, when a customer wishes to terminate their contract early, is generally treated as a contract modification and recognized ratably over the remaining term of the contract, if any. We expect non-recurring revenues to represent less than 10% of total revenues for the foreseeable future.
Operating Expenses
Cost of Revenues. The largest components of our cost of revenues are depreciation, rental payments related to our leased IBX data centers, utility costs including electricity, bandwidth access, IBX data center employees' salaries and benefits including stock-based compensation, repairs and maintenance, supplies and equipment, and security. A majority of our cost of revenues is fixed in nature and should not vary significantly from period to period, unless we expand our existing IBX data centers or open or acquire new IBX data centers. However, there are certain costs that are considered more variable in nature, including utilities and supplies that are directly related to growth in our existing and new customer base. In addition, the cost of electricity is subject to seasonal fluctuations. Our costs of electricity may also increase as a result of the physical effects of climate change, global energy supply constraints including those caused by geopolitical activities, increased regulations driving alternative electricity generation due to environmental considerations or as a result of our election to use renewable energy sources. To the extent we incur increased utility costs, such increased costs could materially impact our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Sales and Marketing. Our sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of compensation and related costs for sales and marketing personnel including stock-based compensation, amortization of contract costs, marketing programs, public relations, promotional materials and travel, as well as bad debt expense and amortization of customer relationship intangible assets.
General and Administrative. Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses including stock-based compensation, accounting, legal and other professional service fees, and other general corporate expenses, such as our corporate regional headquarters office leases and depreciation expense on back office systems.
Taxation as a REIT
We elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes beginning with our 2015 taxable year. As of March 31, 2026, our REIT structure included a majority of our data center operations in the Americas and EMEA regions, as well as the data center operations in Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Our data center operations in other jurisdictions are operated as TRSs. We have also included our share of the assets in xScale joint ventures (with the exception of South Korea) in our REIT structure.
As a REIT, we generally are permitted to deduct from our U.S. federal taxable income the dividends we pay to our stockholders. The taxable income represented by such dividends is not subject to U.S. federal income taxes at the entity level but is taxed in the U.S., if at all, at the stockholder level. Depending on a shareholder's citizenry and residency, the income could be taxed by other jurisdictions as well. Nevertheless, the income of our TRSs which hold our U.S. operations is subject to U.S. federal and state corporate income taxes, as applicable. Likewise, our foreign subsidiaries continue to be subject to local income taxes in jurisdictions in which they hold assets or conduct operations, regardless of whether held or conducted through TRSs or through qualified REIT subsidiaries ("QRSs") for U.S. income tax purposes. We are also subject to a separate U.S. federal corporate income tax on any gain recognized from a sale of a REIT asset where our basis in the asset is determined by reference to the basis of the asset in the hands of a C corporation (such as an asset held by us or a QRS following the liquidation or other conversion of a former TRS). This built-in-gain tax is generally applicable to any disposition of such an asset during the five-year period after the date we first owned the asset as a REIT asset to the extent of the built-in-gain based on the fair market value of such asset on the date we first held the asset as a REIT asset. In addition, should we recognize any gain from "prohibited transactions," we will be subject to tax on this gain at a 100% rate. "Prohibited transactions," for this purpose, are defined as dispositions of inventory or property held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of a trade or business other than dispositions of foreclosure property and other than dispositions excepted by statutory safe harbors. If we fail to remain qualified for U.S. federal income taxation as a REIT, we will be subject to U.S. federal income taxes at regular corporate income tax rates. Even if we remain qualified for U.S. federal income taxation as a REIT, we may be subject to some federal, state, local and foreign
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taxes on our income and property in addition to taxes owed with respect to our TRSs' operations. In particular, while state income tax regimes often parallel the U.S. federal income tax regime for REITs, many states do not completely follow federal rules, and some may not follow them at all.
We continue to monitor our REIT compliance in order to maintain our qualification for U.S. federal income taxation as a REIT. For this and other reasons, as necessary, we may convert some of our data center operations in other countries into the REIT structure in future periods.
On March 18, 2026, we paid a quarterly cash dividend of $5.16 per share. On April 29, 2026, we declared a quarterly cash dividend of $5.16 per share, payable on June 17, 2026, to our common stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 20, 2026. We expect all of our 2026 quarterly distributions and other applicable distributions to equal or exceed our REIT taxable income to be recognized in 2026.
2026 Highlights
•In January, we sold the assets and liabilities relating to the Hampton data center campus ("Hampton Campus"), which were included within our Americas region, to the AMER 3 Joint Venture for total consideration of $459 million. See Note 4 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
•In February, we entered into an equity commitment letter with a subsidiary of Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board to contribute up to $963 million in exchange for approximately 40% ownership of the subsidiary, in connection with the subsidiary's planned acquisition of atNorth, a Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center provider. Our contribution is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, for the joint purchase of atNorth. See Note 9 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
•In March, we issued $1.5 billion of senior notes due between 2031 and 2033. The issuances were denominated in U.S. dollars. See Note 8 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Results of Operations
In order to provide a framework for assessing our performance excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations, we supplement the year-over-year actual change in results of operations with comparative changes on a constant currency basis. Presenting constant currency results of operations is a non-GAAP financial measure. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for further discussion.
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Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025
Revenues. Our revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 were generated from the following revenue classifications and geographic regions ($ in millions):
| Three Months Ended March 31, | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | % | 2025 | % | Actual | Actual | Constant Currency (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Americas: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recurring revenues | $ | 1,046 | 43 | % | $ | 931 | 42 | % | $ | 115 | 12 | % | 11 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-recurring revenues | 45 | 2 | % | 70 | 3 | % | (25) | (36) | % | (36) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1,091 | 45 | % | 1,001 | 45 | % | $ | 90 | 9 | % | 8 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMEA: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recurring revenues | 789 | 32 | % | 716 | 32 | % | 73 | 10 | % | 5 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-recurring revenues | 38 | 2 | % | 27 | 1 | % | 11 | 41 | % | 24 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 827 | 34 | % | 743 | 33 | % | $ | 84 | 11 | % | 6 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia-Pacific: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recurring revenues | 496 | 20 | % | 440 | 20 | % | 56 | 13 | % | 9 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-recurring revenues | 30 | 1 | % | 41 | 2 | % | (11) | (27) | % | (28) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 526 | 21 | % | 481 | 22 | % | $ | 45 | 9 | % | 6 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Recurring revenues | 2,331 | 95 | % | 2,087 | 94 | % | 244 | 12 | % | 8 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-recurring revenues | 113 | 5 | % | 138 | 6 | % | (25) | (18) | % | (22) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | 2,444 | 100 | % | $ | 2,225 | 100 | % | $ | 219 | 10 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1)As defined in the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section in Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Revenues
(in millions)
Americas Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, Americas revenues increased by $90 million or 9% (8% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Americas revenues was primarily due to:
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•approximately $52 million of incremental revenues generated from IBX data center expansion projects which were completed within the twelve months ended March 31, 2026; and
•an increase in orders from both our existing customers and new customers during the period, driven by the realization of strong bookings.
The increase was partially offset by a decrease of $16 million in revenues from non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures.
EMEA Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, EMEA revenues increased by $84 million or 11% (6% on a constant currency basis). Growth in EMEA revenues was primarily due to:
•approximately $24 million of incremental revenues generated from IBX data center expansion projects which were completed within the twelve months ended March 31, 2026; and
•an increase in orders from both our existing customers and new customers during the period, driven by the realization of strong bookings.
Asia-Pacific Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, Asia-Pacific revenues increased by $45 million or 9% (6% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Asia-Pacific revenues was primarily due to:
•approximately $10 million of incremental revenues generated from IBX data center expansion projects which were completed within the twelve months ended March 31, 2026; and
•an increase in orders from both our existing customers and new customers during the period, driven by the realization of strong bookings.
Cost of Revenues. Our cost of revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 by geographic regions was as follows ($ in millions):
| Three Months Ended March 31, | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | % | 2025 | % | Actual | Actual | Constant Currency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 483 | 41 | % | $ | 451 | 42 | % | $ | 32 | 7 | % | 5 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMEA | 444 | 37 | % | 393 | 36 | % | 51 | 13 | % | 6 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia-Pacific | 259 | 22 | % | 240 | 22 | % | 19 | 8 | % | 5 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,186 | 100 | % | $ | 1,084 | 100 | % | $ | 102 | 9 | % | 5 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cost of Revenues
($ in millions; percentages indicate expenses as a percentage of revenues)
Americas Cost of Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, Americas cost of revenues increased by $32 million or 7% (5% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Americas cost of revenues was primarily due to:
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•$19 million of higher depreciation expense driven by IBX data center expansions;
•$12 million of higher utilities expense, primarily driven by higher usage; and
•$10 million of higher compensation cost.
The remainder of the increase was driven by higher property tax and consulting expense, offset by lower costs to provide non-recurring services.
EMEA Cost of Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, EMEA cost of revenues increased by $51 million or 13% (6% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our EMEA cost of revenues was primarily due to:
•$20 million of higher depreciation expense driven by IBX data center expansions; and
•$12 million of higher compensation costs.
The remainder of the increase was driven by higher costs across various categories including utilities expense and repairs and maintenance.
Asia-Pacific Cost of Revenues. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, Asia-Pacific cost of revenues increased by $19 million or 8% (5% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Asia-Pacific cost of revenues was primarily due to:
•$17 million of higher depreciation expense driven by IBX data center expansions; and
•$8 million of higher utilities expense, primarily driven by higher usage.
The increase was offset by lower costs to provide non-recurring services.
We expect cost of revenues to increase across all three regions in line with the growth of our business.
Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our sales and marketing expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 by geographic regions were as follows ($ in millions):
| Three Months Ended March 31, | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | % | 2025 | % | Actual | Actual | Constant Currency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 159 | 66 | % | $ | 153 | 67 | % | $ | 6 | 4 | % | 3 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMEA | 53 | 22 | % | 51 | 22 | % | 2 | 4 | % | (1) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia-Pacific | 29 | 12 | % | 25 | 11 | % | 4 | 16 | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 241 | 100 | % | $ | 229 | 100 | % | $ | 12 | 5 | % | 3 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and Marketing Expenses
($ in millions; percentages indicate expenses as a percentage of revenues)
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Americas Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our Americas sales and marketing expense did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
EMEA Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our EMEA sales and marketing expense did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our Asia-Pacific sales and marketing expense did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
We anticipate that we will continue to invest in sales and marketing initiatives to support the growth of our business. We expect our Americas sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenues to be higher than those of our other regions since certain global sales and marketing functions are located within the U.S.
General and Administrative Expenses. Our general and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 by geographic regions were as follows ($ in millions):
| Three Months Ended March 31, | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | % | 2025 | % | Actual | Actual | Constant Currency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 306 | 69 | % | $ | 300 | 69 | % | $ | 6 | 2 | % | 1 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EMEA | 82 | 18 | % | 80 | 18 | % | 2 | 3 | % | (2) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia-Pacific | 56 | 13 | % | 58 | 13 | % | (2) | (3) | % | (6) | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 444 | 100 | % | $ | 438 | 100 | % | $ | 6 | 1 | % | (1) | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
General and Administrative Expenses
($ in millions; percentages indicate expenses as a percentage of revenues)
Americas General and Administrative Expenses. Our Americas general and administrative expenses did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
EMEA General and Administrative Expenses. Our EMEA general and administrative expenses did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Asia-Pacific General and Administrative Expenses. Our Asia-Pacific general and administrative expenses did not materially change during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Going forward, although we are carefully monitoring our spending, we will continue to invest in our operations to support our growth, including investments to enhance our technology platform, to maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT and to integrate recent acquisitions. Additionally, given that our corporate headquarters is located in the U.S., we expect the Americas general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues to continue to be higher than those of other regions.
Restructuring and Other Exit Charges. During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded restructuring and other exit charges of $6 million and $10 million, respectively, primarily related to severance and other employee costs.
Transaction Costs. During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded transaction costs totaling $8 million and $6 million, respectively. These transaction costs were incurred in connection with evaluating and completing acquisitions and the formation of joint ventures. See Note 4 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Impairment Charges. We did not record a significant amount of impairment charges during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
Gain or Loss on Asset Sales. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we recorded a net gain on asset sales of $20 million, primarily related to the sale of the Hampton Campus to the AMER 3 Joint Venture. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we did not record a significant amount of gain or loss on asset sales. See Note 4 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Income from Operations. Our income from operations increased by $119 million or 26% during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the same period in 2025. This increase is driven by the factors described above.
Interest Income. During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded interest income of $41 million and $47 million, respectively, primarily related to interest income earned on cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as well as on the AMER 2 Loan further described in Note 11 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Interest Expense. Interest expense increased to $148 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 from $122 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase was primarily due to the issuance of senior notes in 2026 and 2025.
During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we capitalized $32 million and $11 million, respectively, of interest expense to construction in progress. See Note 8 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Other Income or Expense. We did not record a significant amount of other income or expense during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. See Note 4 within the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Gain or Loss on Debt Extinguishment. We did not record a significant amount of gain or loss on debt extinguishment during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
Income Taxes. We operate as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, we are generally not subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our taxable income distributed to stockholders. We intend to distribute or have distributed the entire taxable income generated by the operations of our REIT and QRSs for the tax years ending December 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As such, other than certain state income taxes and foreign income and withholding taxes, no provision for income taxes has been included for our REIT and QRSs in the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
We have made TRS elections for some of our subsidiaries in and outside the U.S. In general, a TRS may provide services that would otherwise be considered impermissible for REITs to provide and may hold assets that may not be REIT compliant.
U.S. income taxes for the TRS entities located in the U.S. and foreign income taxes for our foreign operations, regardless of whether the foreign operations are operated as QRSs or TRSs, have been accrued, as necessary, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded $56 million and $49 million of income tax expense, respectively. Our effective tax rates were 11.9% and 12.5% for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Net Income. Our net income increased by $72 million or 21% in the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the same period in 2025. This increase is driven by the factors described above.
Adjusted EBITDA. We define adjusted EBITDA as net income excluding income tax expense, interest income, interest expense, other income or expense, gain or loss on debt extinguishment, depreciation, amortization, accretion, stock-based compensation expense, restructuring and other exit charges, impairment charges, transaction costs, and gain or loss on asset sales. See "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for more information about adjusted EBITDA and a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income. Our adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 by geographic regions was as follows ($ in millions):
| Three Months Ended March 31, | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | % | 2025 | % | Actual | Actual | Constant Currency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 516 | 42 | % | $ | 443 | 42 | % | $ | 73 | 16 | % | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recent insider activity
| Date | Insider | Role | Action | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | MORANDI BRANDI GALVIN | Chief People Officer | Sell | -3,726 | $1,076.36 | -$4,010,517 |
| 2026-06-02 | Lin Jonathan | Chief Business Officer | Sell | -150 ×15 | $1,060.41 | -$159,326 |
| 2026-06-02 | Pletcher Kurt | Chief Legal Officer | Sell | -79 ×15 | $1,060.25 | -$84,025 |
| 2026-06-02 | Fox-Martin Adaire | CEO and President | Sell | -2,935 ×8 | $1,057.11 | -$3,102,612 |
| 2026-06-02 | Abdel Raouf | EVP, Global Operations | Sell | -158 ×15 | $1,060.38 | -$167,806 |
| 2026-05-22 | Abdel Raouf | EVP, Global Operations | Sell | -2,040 | $1,083.47 | -$2,210,279 |
| 2026-05-18 | PAISLEY CHRISTOPHER B indirect | Director | Sell | -125 | $1,060.29 | -$132,536 |
| 2026-05-06 | Meyers Charles J | Director | Sell | -5,224 ×6 | $1,085.23 | -$5,669,216 |
| 2026-04-08 | MORANDI BRANDI GALVIN | Chief People Officer | Sell | -424 | $1,020.00 | -$432,480 |
Source: SEC Form 4 filings.
Next expected filings
- ~2026-07-29 10-Q expected by 2026-08-08 (in 44 days)
- ~2026-10-28 10-Q expected by 2026-11-07 (in 135 days)
- ~2027-02-10 10-K expected by 2027-02-28 (in 240 days)
- ~2027-04-28 10-Q expected by 2027-05-08 (in 317 days)
Predicted from historical filing cadence; not an SEC commitment.
Recent SEC filings
- 2026-05-11 8-K Officer/Director Change; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-05-07 8-K Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-05-01 424B2 Prospectus Supplement
- 2026-04-29 8-K Earnings Release; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-04-29 10-Q Quarterly Report
- 2026-03-10 8-K Officer/Director Change; Regulation FD Disclosure; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-03-05 8-K Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-02-18 8-K Officer/Director Change; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-02-12 8-K Officer/Director Change; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-02-11 10-K Annual Report
- 2026-02-11 8-K Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2026-02-11 8-K Earnings Release; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2025-12-03 8-K Officer/Director Change; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2025-11-24 8-K Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 2025-11-20 8-K Other Events; Financial Statements and Exhibits