Equinix’s shares advanced 2% on Wednesday following the announcement of a new distributed artificial intelligence inference program developed in partnership with Nvidia and Together AI.
The initiative, named Equinix Inference Exchange, integrates Nvidia’s Enterprise Reference Architectures, Together AI’s inference platform, and Equinix’s global data center infrastructure. The program is designed to support enterprise inference scenarios, including metropolitan edge inference, open model migration, and sovereign AI deployments for regulated industries. Availability is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027.
Equinix operates more than 280 data centers across 77 metropolitan areas, providing 230 cloud access points and connecting over 10,500 companies. The company noted that eight of the top 10 AI model providers and nine of the top 10 AI cloud providers are already deployed on its platform.
The launch was unveiled at Equinix Horizon, the firm’s inaugural client and partner event, alongside Equinix Fabric One, a service aimed at facilitating connections across globally distributed AI environments. Together AI’s platform supports more than 200 open-source models, while Nvidia contributes AI infrastructure and reference architectures to the collaboration.
Equinix’s announcement coincided with a broader tech sector decline, as Nvidia’s shares fell 1.51% to close at $217.44 on Wednesday, while Equinix’s stock dipped 1.83% in intraday trading before recovering.
