Equinix, Inc. (EQIX)

Data centers, administration counted. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 11, 2026. Ranked 2 of the 13 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 13,716 employees by region and by function, 58% in engineering, operations and sales and 42% in management, finance and administration, so both patterns are counted.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 28% now, 54% at the end of 2027, 67% at the end of 2028, 72% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 72% desk work, 22% people work and 6% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 28% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 57% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

13,716 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated alone; 5,917 of 13,716 are in the Americas (43%), 4,706 in EMEA and 3,093 in Asia-Pacific.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 13,716 employees worldwide with 5,917 based in the Americas, 4,706 based in EMEA and 3,093 based in Asia-Pacific.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 5,917 Americas, 4,706 EMEA, 3,093 Asia-Pacific; 44% engineering and operations, 14% sales and marketing, 42% management, finance and administration; 71% men, 28% women; nine employee connection networks.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS, 44,000 employees)29% now, 69% by 2028
• SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC, 28,800 employees)28% now, 69% by 2028
• Moody's Corporation (MCO, 16,076 employees)31% now, 69% by 2028
• Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR, 16,000 employees)34% now, 66% by 2028
• Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE, 12,844 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS, 12,800 employees)29% now, 69% by 2028
• Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM, 11,000 employees)28% now, 68% by 2028
• Morningstar, Inc. (MORN, 10,973 employees)30% now, 69% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

41 sentences in the filing name AI. Forty-one sentences: the company says customers use its data centers to implement AI applications at scale, names AI among the digital experiences it connects, and lists the development and use of AI in the workplace among its risks.

• “The development and use of artificial intelligence in the workplace presents risks and challenges that may adversely impact our business and operating results.”
• “Twenty-seven years later, we have expanded upon that vision by connecting economies, countries, enterprises and communities with seamless digital experiences, including cutting-edge artificial intelligence ("AI").”
• “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.”
• “Our Competitive Advantage The digital economy continues to accelerate as AI, data-intensive workloads, and ecosystem-based business models reshape how industries operate.”
• “Service providers supply cloud and AI infrastructure, services across payments, cybersecurity and other domains, and industry-specific platforms and applications, while enterprise consumers assemble these capabilities into operational stacks that drive innovation and scale.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 202310median 1
• Fiscal 202430median 4
• Fiscal 202541median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The management, finance and administration share (42%) is a stated administrative count, read at management of companies under rule 6; it is the largest such share in the file and is flagged for the next audit.
• The U.S. share is not stated alone.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001101239-26-000032, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.