Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin on AI’s growing demands on data centres
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Danny and Katie look at California’s new AI safety law, OpenAI’s in-chat checkout, and the rise of AI “actors”, and how it all depends on one thing – data centres, the hidden plumbing of the internet. They’re joined by Adaire Fox-Martin, CEO of Equinix, which runs the giant facilities where the world’s data lives, to explain how the company is racing to keep up with demand and why it plans to add as much capacity in the next five years as it did in the past 27. But with soaring energy use and limited space, can the industry keep pace?
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