Turnover: 6.63 billion USD (2022)

Country: United States

Founded in 1998, Equinix is today the world's largest provider of data center and colocation solutions

The company has invested over $17 billion to build its data center platforms. In 2018, Equinix has 29 data centers in Europe

It calls its data centers "International Business Exchanges" (IBX) to highlight the collaboration and data exchange it enables.

  • French start-up Alice & Bob has teamed up with American company Equinix, a world leader in data center rentals with a 12% market share.
  • Equinix has 250 data centers worldwide, including eleven in France, and generates annual sales of around 7 billion euros.
  • Equinix has a customer base of 10,000, including 83% of the CAC 40.

News

Seine-Saint-Denis, a new pact between data hosts and local authorities 20/06/2023

  • Equinix PA10 data center inaugurated last October in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), north of Paris.
  • The data center covers an area of 5,800 m2.
  • Equinix is the world leader in data hosting, with sales of 7.2 billion euros in 2020.
  • According to the Institut Paris-Région, Seine-Saint-Denis has the highest concentration of data centers in France, with 30 operational sites.
  • Two data centers are planned for Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) within the next five years.

How data centers are spreading to the regions 20/06/2023

  • 250 private data centers in France, compared with 200 three years ago
  • 80% to 90% of French data centers were located in the Paris region five years ago, compared with two-thirds today
  • Equinix, a major player in the sector, has invested 92 million euros to build its first data center outside the Ile-de-France region in 2021
  • The Marseille metropolitan area is home to 5 data centers, connected by 17 undersea cables from the Middle East and Asia
  • Toulon's first data center was built by local hosting provider XL 360, with a surface area of 1,600 m².
  • According to Ademe, large data centers consume just over 45 gigawatt-hours per year, equivalent to the electricity consumption of around 9,000 households

Data centers at risk from power cuts 28/11/2022

  • In France, data centers consume the output of almost two nuclear reactors
  • The data center is the backbone of a digital economy based on buildings and servers
  • The main players in the market (OVHCloud, Scaleway, Data4, Digital Realty (ex-Interxion), Equinix, Telehouse) have highly polluting back-up production systems (diesel generators)

Financial Data

DUNS: 429840853

Legal Name: EQUINIX FRANCE SAS

Address: 35 RUE DE LA FEDERATION , 75015 PARIS

Number of employees: Entre 100 et 199 salariés (2021)

Capital: 535 627 795 EUR


Financial Data:

Year 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Turnover 391 585 821 362 540 465 327 851 018 271 378 409 243 789 317 212 954 602 141 666 360 126 119 798
Gross margin (€) 392 502 602 363 944 784 330 085 227 271 905 977 245 404 104 213 303 725 142 147 273 126 715 737
EBITDA (€) 46 030 740 46 613 265 41 002 177 33 452 168 36 081 546 29 264 170 17 947 779 18 729 835
Operating profit (€) 10 313 500 10 077 688 6 448 647 5 199 663 9 310 620 -37 410 023 6 426 479 4 808 154
Net profit (€) 6 227 578 5 319 462 4 515 356 5 793 722 6 970 474 -39 988 271 -1 465 401 -8 293 618
Turnover growth rate (%) 8 10,6 20,8 11,3 14,5 50,3 12,3 -
Ebitda margin rate (%) 11,8 12,9 12,5 12,3 14,8 13,7 12,7 14,9
Operating margin rate (%) 2,6 2,8 2 1,9 3,8 -17,6 4,5 3,8
Working Capital (turnover days) -73,3 -77 -98,4 -167,6 41 32,4 46,7 30,6
Working Capital requirements (turnover days) 15,4 19,4 20,9 28,7 14,9 24,7 21,3 10,4
Net margin (%) 1,6 1,5 1,4 2,1 2,9 -18,8 -1 -6,6
Added value / Turnover (%) 19,6 21,6 20,2 20,9 22,4 23,3 22,4 23,8
Wages and social charges (€) 29 192 872 24 661 417 21 623 289 17 477 092 15 148 095 17 444 755 11 549 973 9 099 509
Salaries / Turnover (%) 7,5 6,8 6,6 6,4 6,2 8,2 8,2 7,2

Company Managers:

Position First Name Last Name Age Linkedin
Directeur général Regis, Philippe Castagne 58
Directeur général Rene, Maria Smit 40
Commissaire aux comptes suppléant Patrice Morot 58

Studies mentioning this company

The data center market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • OVH
  • AWS Amazon Web Services
  • ILIAD
  • EQUINIX
  • Interxion
  • APL Data center
  • Jerlaure
  • Wattdesign
  • Adista - Inherent
  • Etix Everywhere
  • Data4 service
  • Marseille, Hub digital
  • Altice
  • Celeste Telecom
  • Scaleway (Iliad Groupe)
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Schwartz Group (Lidll Kaufland, Schwartz Digit)
  • Snowflake Computing
  • XEFI
  • NTT Nippon Telecom
  • Evernex
  • Green4Cloud