Dublin, 3rd November 2025: Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company™, today announces that it has completed its €59M acquisition of BT’s data centre business in Ireland.
The transaction, first announced on 23 December 2024, and cleared by the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in August this year, increases Equinix’s portfolio from four to five colocation data centres, while expanding its capacity to support customers in its existing Citywest location and in the newly acquired data centre in Ballycoolin. Equinix is also welcoming the Irish and multinational enterprises already located in the facilities into Equinix’s customer base.
Peter Lantry, Managing Director, Equinix Ireland, said: “We are very much looking forward to welcoming our new colleagues and customers to Equinix. We have a long and proud legacy of enabling businesses in Ireland to grow and connect, delivering significant value to individuals and businesses across the Irish economy. This completion of this acquisition of assets from BT allows us to continue serving those customers with world-class interconnection services that benefits Irish society through international interconnectivity.”
In the coming months, Equinix will support the transition of the data centres from BT, ensuring uninterrupted operations to customers, while positioning the facilities as integral parts not just to the Irish economy, but also as an important part of Equinix’s global network, too.
The acquisition reinforces Equinix’s position as the world’s digital infrastructure company and builds on the legacy of providing high performance colocation data centre facilities in Ireland. Colocation data centres enable multiple enterprises to connect and manage their data in a digital ecosystem encompassing cloud providers, networks, and digital supply chain partners.
These facilities underpin all of society by providing direct, private interconnection for end-customers from industries spanning life sciences, public sector, banking, automotive, entertainment and education. It is more efficient in terms of power usage, and speed than on-premise data centres.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) shortens the path to boundless connectivity anywhere in the world. Its digital infrastructure, data centre footprint and interconnected ecosystems empower innovations that enhance our work, life, and planet. Equinix connects economies, countries, organizations and communities, delivering seamless digital experiences and cutting-edge AI—quickly, efficiently, and everywhere.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks to our business and operating results related to the current inflationary environment; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; stock price fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and the general volatility in the global energy market; the challenges of building and operating IBX and xScale ® data centers, including those related to sourcing suitable power and land, and any supply chain constraints or increased costs of supplies; the challenges of developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT; risks related to regulatory inquiries or litigation and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and upcoming Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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