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FY2026 Q1
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Equinix, Inc. earnings call
Buzzberg read
Record sales activity up 35% year-over-year
Equinix reported a strong Q1 FY2026 with record sales activity, 10% recurring revenue growth, and margin expansion. Management raised full-year guidance citing durable AI inference demand, particularly from neoclouds and enterprise adoptions of agentic AI. Key wins included Maersk selecting Equinix for liquid-cooled AI deployments, and the launch of the Distributed AI Hub with NVIDIA. Supply chain signals include 50% growth in liquid cooling orders and 70% surge in fabric bookings. Total sales activity up >35% YoY to a record, led by AI-related deals (~60% of largest deals).
Buzzberg read Record sales activity up 35% year-over-year Equinix reported a strong Q1 FY2026 with record sales activity, 10% recurring revenue growth, and margin expansion. Management raised full-year guidance citing durable AI inference demand, particularly from neoclouds and enterprise adoptions of agentic AI. Key wins included Maersk selecting Equinix for liquid-cooled AI deployments, and the launch of the Distributed AI Hub with NVIDIA. Supply chain signals include 50% growth in liquid cooling orders and 70% surge in fabric bookings. Total sales activity up >35% YoY to a record, led by AI-related deals (~60% of largest deals). Read full analysisCollapse analysis
Equinix reported a strong Q1 FY2026 with record sales activity, 10% recurring revenue growth, and margin expansion. Management raised full-year guidance citing durable AI inference demand, particularly from neoclouds and enterprise adoptions of agentic AI. Key wins included Maersk selecting Equinix for liquid-cooled AI deployments, and the launch of the Distributed AI Hub with NVIDIA. Supply chain signals include 50% growth in liquid cooling orders and 70% surge in fabric bookings. Total sales activity up >35% YoY to a record, led by AI-related deals (~60% of largest deals).
- Recurring revenue grew 10% y/y, AFFO surpassed $1B for the first time, and adjusted EBITDA margin reached 51%.
- Raised FY2026 revenue growth guidance to 10-11% and AFFO growth to 10-12%.
- Liquid cooling deployments up 50% qoq to 36; fabric bookings up 70% y/y.
RECURRING Revenue$2.3BReported
Revenue$2.444B+0% QoQ
EPS$4.20+56% QoQ
Gross margin51.47%Reported
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What matters now
The highest-signal changes from the call.
AI
60% of largest deals were AI-related
Guidance
Raised full-year guidance across key metrics
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Other
AFFO surpasses $1 billion for first time
Demand
Interconnection revenue growth 9%, fabric up 26%
Reported period
Actuals
| Metric | Reported | Change |
|---|---|---|
| RECURRING Revenue | $2.3B | Reported |
| Revenue | $2.444B | +0% QoQ |
| EPS | $4.20 | +56% QoQ |
| Gross margin | 51.47% | Reported |
| Operating margin | 23.61% | Reported |
| Free cash flow | $-0.539B | Reported |
Forward-looking
Forward guidance
| Metric | Period | Range | Midpoint | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capex | FY2026 | $4.1B | $4.1B | Maintained |
| Free cash flow | FY2026 | 10%–12% | 11% | Raised |
| Free cash flow | FY2026 | $9.00–$11.00 | $10.00 | Raised |
| Operating margin | FY2026 | 51% | 51% | Raised |
| Revenue | FY2026 | 10%–11% | 10.5% | Raised |
AI, capex & demand read
Management read
upbeat
Management expressed strong confidence, citing record sales activity, margin improvement, and raised full-year guidance driven by durable demand and AI momentum.
Management AI read
Management said AI is driving infrastructure investments, with inference and agentic AI moving from pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. Approximately 60% of largest deals were AI-related, and eight of top 10 AI model providers and four of top five neoclouds are expanding with Equinix.
Investment and capacity
Total CapEx for Q1 was $1.3 billion, 90% on growth expansion. Full-year CapEx expected at top end of prior range at $4.1 billion, with returns targeted at mid-20% cash-on-cash.
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Customers
Adair Fox-Martin
Equinix’s liquid-cooling deployments grew 50% quarter-over-quarter to 36 installations, signaling rapid enterprise adoption of high-density AI workloads. — Rising liquid-cooling adoption implies higher power densities and may accelerate demand for advanced cooling solutions and GPU clusters.
Evidence
“Maersk recently selected Equinus as its primary data center partner to support high performance and AI workloads, including its first liquid-cooled AI deployments in Frankfurt.”
Partners
Partners
Adair Fox-Martin
Equinix’s liquid-cooling deployments grew 50% quarter-over-quarter to 36 installations, signaling rapid enterprise adoption of high-density AI workloads. — Rising liquid-cooling adoption implies higher power densities and may accelerate demand for advanced cooling solutions and GPU clusters.
Evidence
“The Equinix Distributed AI Hub, which we introduced at NVIDIA GTC, solves this by giving enterprises a single, private, low latency connection to the entire AI ecosystem.”
Supply chain
Supply chain
Adair Fox-Martin
Equinix’s fabric bookings were up 70% year-over-year and total interconnection revenue grew 9%, highlighting accelerating ecosystem stickiness and cross-connect demand. — Surging interconnection demand drives networking equipment sales and raises switching/routing requirements for data center interconnect vendors.
Evidence
“Fabric revenue growth was at 26%. And our fabric bookings grew 74% year over year.”
External signals
Supply-chain alpha · 3returns since call
Equinix’s liquid-cooling deployments grew 50% quarter-over-quarter to 36 installations, signaling rapid enterprise adoption of high-density AI workloads.
Evidence
“We had quite a significant quarter in Q1 as it relates to liquid cooling orders, generally of which Maersk was one. I believe it was a 50% growth in terms of our liquid cooling deployments.”
Equinix pre-sold 25% of its 2026 retail capacity expansion and recorded $140 million in pre-selling activity, indicating customer urgency for future capacity.
Evidence
“approximately 25% of our 2026 retail capacity expansion has already been sold.”
Equinix’s fabric bookings were up 70% year-over-year and total interconnection revenue grew 9%, highlighting accelerating ecosystem stickiness and cross-connect demand.
Methodology & coverage
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