Equinix is exiting a number of leased data centers across the US and plans to migrate customers to its other nearby facilities.
In an email to customers, first reported by Foundations, Equinix told customers it planned not to renew leases for eight of its data centers across the US. The list includes a number of facilities in Atlanta, Georgia and across California as well as one in New York. Three of the eight are owned by Digital Realty.
The company will be leaving the carrier hotels and data centers that no longer meet its engineering and sustainability standards, or have no expansion capacity for Equinix and its customers.
“In some cases, the leased properties are in facilities that may not meet the future operational, expansion or sustainability needs of our customers or our corporate standards,” Equinix said in a statement to Data Center Frontier.
“As a part of this review strategy, we have identified several sites in the US where, over the next several years, we will not renew our leases and will relocate customer operations from those data centers to modern Equinix facilities in interconnection-rich data center campuses.”
Customer relocation deadlines start in April 2022, with most scheduled between 2023 and 2025.
Equinix has additional locations in each of the markets to hold the migrating customers; the company will still have two in Atlanta, four in Los Angeles, Nine in New York, and 13 in Silicon Valley.
DCD has reached out to Equinix for more details.
Update: Equinix provided DCD with the following comment:
Equinix regularly reviews our IBX data center footprint to ensure alignment with both our customers’ needs to interconnect with vibrant digital ecosystems, as well as our long-term strategic business goals. In some cases, the leased properties are in facilities that may not meet the future operational, expansion, or sustainability needs of our customers or our corporate standards.
As a part of this review strategy, we have identified several sites in the US where, over the next several years, we will not renew our leases and will relocate customer operations from those data centers to modern Equinix facilities in interconnection-rich data center campuses.
