DCK Investor Edge: Equinix CEO Steve Smith this week fleshed out the company’s strategy for riding the next wave of data center expansion by the dozen largest hyper-scale platforms, which includes building 1MW to 2MW nodes for those clients.

Already a dominant player in Australia, Equinix will now expand in Sydney and Melbourne and enter new markets.

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For $295 million, Equinix adds new edge markets, gets access to lots of Europe-West Africa bandwidth, and more.

While an outage is far from given, its effects would ripple far beyond cities in the hurricane’s path.

Total bandwidth on the private links companies use to interconnect their networks directly is growing faster than total bandwidth of the public internet and three years from now will outpace growth of the internet’s total bandwidth by almost two...

Two years after it did a pilot fuel-cell installation at one of its Silicon Valley data centers, Equinix is making a big bet on the technology, which uses a chemical process to convert natural gas to electricity...