EQUINIX INC

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We provide a global, vendor-neutral data center, interconnection and edge solutions platform with offerings that aim to enable our customers to reach everywhere, interconnect everyone and integrate everything. 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 Platform 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 xScale TM data center investments, have expanded our total global footprint to 268 IBXs, including 20 xScale data centers and the MC1 data center that are held in unconsolidated joint ventures, across 74 markets around the world. We offer the following solutions:

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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 xScale TM data center investments, have expanded our total global footprint to 280 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:

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•interconnection and data exchange solutions;

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•physical and virtual interconnection and data exchange solutions;

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Our data centers around the world allow our customers to bring together and interconnect the infrastructure they need to fast-track their digital advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, accelerate the launch of digital offerings, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value. We enable them to differentiate by distributing infrastructure and removing the distance between clouds, users and applications in order to reduce latency and deliver a superior customer, partner and employee experience. The Equinix global platform, and the quality of our offerings, have enabled us to establish a critical mass of customers. As more customers choose Platform Equinix for bandwidth cost and performance reasons, 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, continuously enhances our existing customers' value and enables them to capture further economic and performance benefits from our offerings.

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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.

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•In November and December, we sold 755,298 shares on a spot basis under the 2024 ATM Program for approximately $697 million, net of commissions and other offering expenses. See Note 11 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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◦In February and March, we sold 107,493 shares on a spot basis under the 2024 ATM Program for approximately $99 million, net of commissions and other offering expenses. See Note 11 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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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 78% and 79%, as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, 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 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.

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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 December 31, 2025 and 2024, 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 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.

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Strategically, we will 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. 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.

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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.

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Our business is primarily based on a recurring revenue model comprised of colocation and related 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 3% of our recurring revenues for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022. Our 50 largest customers accounted for approximately 36%, 37% and 36% of our recurring revenues for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

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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 3% of our recurring revenues for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. Our 50 largest customers accounted for approximately 36%, 36% and 37% of our recurring revenues for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

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Our non-recurring revenues are primarily derived from fees charged from installations related to a customer's initial deployment and professional services we perform for our customers, including our joint ventures. These services are considered to be non-recurring because they are billed typically once, upon completion of the installation or the professional services work performed. The majority of these non-recurring revenues are typically billed on the first invoice distributed to the customer in connection with their initial installation. However, revenues from installations are deferred and recognized ratably over the period of the contract term. 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. As a percentage of total revenues, we expect non-recurring revenues to represent less than 10% of total revenues for the foreseeable future.

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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 were 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.

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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 generally higher in the summer months, as compared to other times of the year. Our costs of electricity may also increase as a result of the physical effects of climate change, global energy supply constraints, 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.

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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, 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.

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We elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes beginning with our 2015 taxable year. As of December 31, 2024, 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 Korea, in our REIT structure.

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We elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes beginning with our 2015 taxable year. As of December 31, 2025, 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 the APAC 3 Joint Venture) in our REIT structure.

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As a REIT, we generally are permitted to deduct from our U.S. federal taxable income the dividends we pay to our stockholders. The 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 stockholder's citizenship 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 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.

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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 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.

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On each of March 20, 2024, June 19, 2024, September 18, 2024 and December 11, 2024, we paid a quarterly cash dividend of $4.26 per share. We expect all of our 2024 quarterly distributions and other applicable distributions to equal or exceed our REIT taxable income recognized in 2024.

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On each of March 19, 2025, June 18, 2025, September 17, 2025 and December 17, 2025, we paid a quarterly cash dividend of $4.69 per share. We expect all of our 2025 quarterly distributions and other applicable distributions to equal or exceed our REIT taxable income recognized in 2025.

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Americas Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Americas revenues increased by $245 million or 7% (7% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Americas revenues was primarily due to:

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Americas Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Americas revenues increased by $249 million or 6% (7% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Americas revenues was primarily due to:

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EMEA Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, EMEA revenues increased by $129 million or 5% (3% on a constant currency basis). Growth in EMEA revenues was primarily due to:

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EMEA Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2025, EMEA revenues increased by $163 million or 5% (4% on a constant currency basis). Growth in EMEA revenues was primarily due to:

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Asia-Pacific Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Asia-Pacific revenues increased by $186 million or 11% (12% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Asia-Pacific revenues was primarily due to:

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Asia-Pacific Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Asia-Pacific revenues increased by $57 million or 3% (3% on a constant currency basis). Growth in Asia-Pacific revenues was primarily due to:

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•$27 million of higher depreciation expense driven by IBX data center expansions and acceleration of depreciation expense for certain assets with shortened useful lives; and

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•approximately $27 million of incremental revenues generated from IBX data center expansion projects which were completed within the twelve months ended December 31, 2025; and

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Americas Cost of Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Americas cost of revenues increased by $185 million or 11% (12% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Americas cost of revenues was primarily due to:

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Americas Cost of Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Americas cost of revenues increased by $62 million or 3% (4% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Americas cost of revenues was primarily due to:

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•$24 million of higher utilities costs, driven by both increases in power costs and higher utility usage; and

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•$23 million of higher utilities costs, driven by both increases in power costs and higher utility usage.

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•$37 million of higher costs to provide non-recurring services;

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The remainder of the increase was driven by higher office and accretion expenses, offset by lower costs to provide non-recurring services.

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EMEA Cost of Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, EMEA cost of revenues increased by $21 million or 1% (1% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our EMEA cost of revenues was primarily due to:

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EMEA Cost of Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2025, EMEA cost of revenues decreased by $24 million or 1% (3% on a constant currency basis). The decrease in our EMEA cost of revenues was primarily due to lower utilities costs as a result of decreases in power prices in Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, partially offset by:

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•$21 million of higher rent and facilities costs.

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•$17 million of higher rent and facilities cost; and

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Asia-Pacific Cost of Revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Asia-Pacific cost of revenues increased by $33 million or 3% (5% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Asia-Pacific cost of revenues was primarily due to:

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Asia-Pacific Cost of Revenues. Our Asia-Pacific cost of revenues did not materially change during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 as increases in depreciation expense and compensation costs were substantially offset by decreases in utilities costs and costs to provide non-recurring services.

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EMEA Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our EMEA sales and marketing expenses did not materially change during the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023.

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EMEA Sales and Marketing Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2025, EMEA sales and marketing increased by $9 million or 5% (2% on a constant currency basis) driven by insignificant increases across various categories.

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Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Asia-Pacific sales and marketing increased by $9 million or 8% (9% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Asia-Pacific sales and marketing expenses was primarily due to an increase in compensation costs, including salaries, bonuses and stock-based compensation attributable to headcount growth and higher bad debt expense.

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Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Expenses. Our Asia-Pacific sales and marketing expenses did not materially change during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024.

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Americas General and Administrative Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Americas general and administrative expenses increased by $98 million or 9% (9% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Americas general and administrative expenses was primarily due to:

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Americas General and Administrative Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Americas general and administrative expenses increased by $52 million or 4% (5% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our Americas general and administrative expenses was primarily due to $43 million of higher compensation costs, including stock-based compensation. The remainder of the increase was driven by higher costs across various categories including training and recruiting expense, tax and license fees and other operating expenses.

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EMEA General and Administrative Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2024, EMEA general and administrative expenses increased by $14 million or 4% (4% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our EMEA general and administrative expenses was primarily due to higher compensation costs, including sales compensation, salaries and stock-based compensation driven by headcount growth.

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EMEA General and Administrative Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2025, EMEA general and administrative expenses increased by $16 million or 5% (3% on a constant currency basis). The increase in our EMEA general and administrative expenses was primarily due to $25 million of higher compensation costs, including stock-based compensation, partially offset by lower consulting costs.

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Going forward, although we are carefully monitoring our spending, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase across all three regions as we 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 be higher than those of other regions.

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Going forward, although we are carefully monitoring our spending, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase across all three regions as we 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 be higher than that of other regions.

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Transaction Costs. During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, we recorded transaction costs of $50 million and $13 million, respectively. These transaction costs primarily related to costs incurred in connection with the formation of new joint ventures. See Note 5 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Transaction Costs. During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, we recorded transaction costs of $18 million and $50 million, respectively. These transaction costs were incurred in connection with evaluating and completing acquisitions and the formation of joint ventures. See Notes 3 and 5 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Impairment Charges. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded impairment charges of $233 million as a result of the Equinix Metal Wind Down and current and projected future losses at a Hong Kong IBX. Impairment charges of $166 million, $38 million and $29 million were recorded on property, plant and equipment, operating lease right-of-use assets and intangible assets, respectively. See Note 17 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Impairment Charges. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we determined that the carrying amounts of certain long-lived assets may not be fully recoverable as we no longer intend to hold these assets long-term. We recognized impairment charges of $68 million during 2025 to reflect management’s estimate of fair value of these long-lived assets based primarily on sales of similar assets and ongoing negotiations with third parties. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded impairment charges of $233 million as a result of the Equinix Metal Wind Down and current and projected future losses at a Hong Kong IBX. See Note 17 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Gain or Loss on Asset Sales. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded a gain of $18 million, related to the sale of the Silicon Valley 12 ("SV12") data center. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we did not record a significant amount of gain or loss on asset sales. See Note 5 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Gain or Loss on Asset Sales. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we did not record a significant amount of gain or loss on asset sales. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded a gain of $18 million related to the sale of the Silicon Valley 12x ("SV12x") data center. See Note 5 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Income from Operations. Our income from operations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 by geographic regions were as follows ($ in millions):

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Income from Operations. Our income from operations increased by $520 million or 39% in the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024. This increase is driven by the factors described above.

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Interest Income. Interest income increased to $137 million with an average yield of 5.89% for the year ended December 31, 2024, from $94 million with an average yield of 4.11% for the year ended December 31, 2023. The increase was primarily due to interest income earned on time deposits as well as on the AMER 2 Loan further described in Note 15 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Interest Income. During the year ended December 31, 2025, interest income increased by $56 million or 41%. The increase was primarily due to interest income earned on a higher average balance of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as well as on the AMER 2 Loan further described in Note 15 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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This increase was further driven by an increase in the variable interest rate on our GBP term loan. During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, we capitalized $36 million and $26 million, respectively, of interest expense to construction in progress. See Note 10 within the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, we capitalized $79 million and $36 million, respectively, of interest expense to construction in progress.

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Other Expense. For the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded net other expense of $17 million, largely driven by our share of losses incurred on our equity method investments in our xScale joint ventures. We did not record a significant amount of net other expense during the year ended December 31, 2023.

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Other Income or Expense. We did not record a significant amount of other income or expense during the year ended December 31, 2025. For the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded net other expense of $17 million, largely driven by our share of losses incurred on our equity method investments in our xScale joint ventures.

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Gain or Loss on Debt Extinguishment. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded $16 million of net loss on debt extinguishment primarily due to the modification of a financing obligation on a property in the Americas region. We did not record a significant amount of loss on debt extinguishment during the year ended December 31, 2023.

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Gain or Loss on Debt Extinguishment. We did not record a significant amount of gain or loss on debt extinguishment during the year ended December 31, 2025. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded $16 million of net loss on debt extinguishment primarily due to the modification of a financing obligation on a property in the Americas region.

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For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, we recorded $161 million and $155 million of income tax expenses, respectively. Our effective tax rates were 16.5% and 13.8%, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. The higher effective tax rate in 2024 as compared to 2023 is primarily driven by the increasing losses in certain entities in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, of which full valuation allowances against the deferred tax assets were assessed.

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For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, we recorded $160 million and $161 million of income tax expenses, respectively. Our effective tax rates were 10.6% and 16.5%, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.

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Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is a key factor in how we assess the operating performance of our segments and develop regional growth strategies such as IBX data center expansion decisions. 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 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 years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 by geographic regions was as follows ($ in millions):

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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 years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 by geographic regions was as follows ($ in millions):

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Americas Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Americas adjusted EBITDA increased by $95 million or 6% (7% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures, IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth, as described above.

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Americas Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Americas adjusted EBITDA increased by $181 million or 11% (11% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth, partially offset by lower revenues as a result of non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures, as described above.

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EMEA Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2024, EMEA adjusted EBITDA increased by $127 million or 10% (9% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth, and lower utilities costs, as described above.

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EMEA Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2025, EMEA adjusted EBITDA increased by $183 million or 13% (12% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth and lower utilities costs, partially offset by lower revenues as a result of non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures, as described above.

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Asia-Pacific Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2024, Asia-Pacific adjusted EBITDA increased by $173 million or 21% (22% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures, IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth, and lower utilities costs, as described above.

Current wording

Asia-Pacific Adjusted EBITDA. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Asia-Pacific adjusted EBITDA increased by $69 million or 7% (6% on a constant currency basis), primarily due to higher revenues as a result of IBX data center expansion activity and organic growth, offset by lower revenues as a result of non-recurring services provided to our joint ventures, as described above.