Equinix Analyst Day and AI Summit 2025: Building the Foundation for Distributed, Sustainable, and Sovereign AI in Asia/Pacific

This Market Note showcases how Equinix is evolving from a traditional infrastructure provider into an orchestrator of distributed, intelligent, and sustainable AI platforms across Asia/Pacific. Its strategy emphasizes modular Asia/Pacific expansion, AI-aware networking, and ecosystem-driven collaboration to meet rising enterprise demand for sovereign, low-latency AI deployments. Although Equinix's innovations and green financing initiatives strengthen its position as a regional leader, long-term success will hinge on deep partner integration, regulatory harmonization, and the localization of global capabilities to address the region's diverse digital and policy environments."Distributed AI is not just a deployment model, but a new foundation for digital resiliency," says Dr William Lee, senior research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Cloud Infrastructure, Datacenter, and Telco Research. "In the coming decade, intelligence will no longer reside in a single cloud or core, but flow dynamically across an ecosystem of interconnected datacenters, empowering Asia/Pacific enterprises to innovate securely, sustainably, and at the speed of proximity."