The colocation data center provider Equinix counted 371,400 cabinets across its global data center portfolio in 2024, with the Americas region accounting for the largest share. In colocation data centers, the term cabinet is used to describe a single enclosure housing servers and other IT hardware. These cabinets typically adhere to standardized dimensions, with customers able to rent cabinets according to their requirements.
The source provides the following information: “Excludes 21 unconsolidated data centers (20 xScale data centers and the MC1 IBX data center) and includes the JK1 data center which opened in February 2025. Cabinets represent a specific amount of space within an IBX data center. Customers can combine and use multiple adjacent cabinets within an IBX data center, depending on their space requirements.”
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Equinix. (February 18, 2025). Number of Equinix data center cabinets worldwide from 2016 to 2024, by region [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 07, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1612712/equinix-cabinet-capacity-by-region/
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Equinix. (2025). Number of Equinix data center cabinets worldwide from 2016 to 2024, by region . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 07, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1612712/equinix-cabinet-capacity-by-region/
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