The Biggest Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of

[@Sam-gf6ue]

"tom scott made a video on this" a phrase that can be used for most things it seems.

[@phytonso9877]

"I am here in Vancouver..."

[@SyntheticFuture]

It's the "Simpsons did it" of tech-land :D

[@coolbugfacts1234]

"I am at the small mining town of Ravenholm"

[@khyoyeon554]

Do you know how nonspecific that is?

[@rem_0]

"Welcome to Fucking. A beautiful village..." Wasn't Tom's video, but oh boy it has the same vibe

[@jcorey333]

Did I just watch a 20-minute trailer to a 20-minute video?

[@cristinelcostachescu9585]

Nope, you watched a 20min *teaser* for *an over 20min video*.

[@thomascroghan9255]

Guaranteed longer than 20 minutes. Equinix is technology company with professionalism turned to the max. Just getting into their building is 5 minutes worth of content.

[@maxafc4695]

No, we watched a 20 mins trailer for a 20 mins ad 😉

[@artiumromanov9798]

Are you ever going to pay Equinix for their product? ​@@maxafc4695

[@gingerman5123]

0:33 I saw the headline and thought "I bet ya it's Equinix". I've heard of them but I'm a Network Engineer for an ISP and we're in their COLOs. Every major ISP has space in Equinix.

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@MartinTechReviews]

Snap!

[@barzaka12]

Yeah, I even have some personal stuff colocated there

[@graysnail9232]

@@barzaka12 same! cool dudes, I just use their service for a personal cloud for my minecraft worlds

[@bingbong4564]

@@DunDun-e43 Cloudflare uses Equinix DCs

[@vincentvo8347]

Equinix is one of the biggest clients for the company I work for. Wouldn't even know about them if I wasn't working in fiber optics. I didn't even know that they were planning on doing deeplake cooling. Sick stuff. Can't wait to see their tour.

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@tonyhart2744]

wdym they are big name in data centre spaces and networking field

[@conorstewart2214]

​@@tonyhart2744 they may be a big name but they are only known within specific fields. The majority of people, including people who are into tech or work in tech have probably never heard of them.

[@vincentvo8347]

@@tonyhart2744 That makes sense, I don't dabble too much in the data center industry. Just enough to understand the basics for my job.

[@myownsite]

"Cloud is just someone else's computer" saying could be extended with "...inside an Equinix DC."

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@Lethaltail]

Snap?

[@conorstewart2214]

​@@DunDun-e43 do you need to spam that comment though?

[@grumpyguss]

Depends. The biggest cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Oracle, IBM, GCP) are called "hyperscalers" and they operate in wholesale datacenters (basically single tenant) where all their gear actually resides. However, they would never want an endless stream of customers requesting direct connections (via circuits) coming in and them having to terminate it all. Instead, they put their on-ramps / edge nodes into places like Equinix so that Equinix has to be the one to take care of all that work. Equinix has more cloud on-ramps than any other provider by a large margin, actually. For smaller cloud providers, they actually do setup shop inside Equinix. The big boys? They're literally right next door in major markets like Ashburn (datacenter alley).

[@tecno2053]

work in telecom, i do A TON of work with Equinix, their tech is super legit. The build the kind of infra any sane engineer would love to work on. The innovations they a have made to MaaS(metal as a service) and virtualization are just madness. Getting a tour from these guys in this fashion without being a customer, mind blowing.

[@NickTaylorRickPowers]

Yeah Linus explaining all the sensors and automation makes sense They probably had all this tech well before cloud computing

[@mohammedabdelrahman9744]

Yo can I have your email or any kind of contact

[@LukasSmith827]

Area 51 for tech and Linus got a tour, wow

[@cheeseisgreat24]

My favorite is I could already tell from his description of the place that they weren’t gonna be the kind of company to tell him how to title and thumbnail the video. You don’t get to that level of company by dictating the perception of your brand, you get to that level by **being** your brand so completely that the perception cannot be of anything else, and trusting others to do the job that you’ve specifically hired (or in this case, sponsored) them to do because you’ve actually gone and vetted them beforehand instead of saw them as an easy mark.

[@CMBoan]

I've worked in the nuclear industry and that's very much how nuclear plants run themselves. It's honestly super refreshing as an employee to know that the company isn't messing around because they can't afford to. It also means that they expect you to not mess around either, which can be pretty intimidating at first. Overall it's a great industry to get into and they treat their people well

[@conorstewart2214]

​@@CMBoan it is likely due to the goals of the company and who their target market are. The likes of Equinix and nuclear power plants don't need to deal with the general public and their marketing (if any) is purely reputation based. They are not trying to look good or market to the general public, they aren't as interested in being first to market or chasing trends, they are all about stability and safety and performance. They are more interested in the long term rather than short term competition. They aren't pressured to release new products just to keep their income stream going like phone or PC manufacturers or most other tech companies either.

[@cheeseisgreat24]

@@conorstewart2214 I mean, I’d think it’d be fair to say that any good company should always be that way, period. You don’t have to be obsessed with your image in a consumer goods company, if you actually make good products and stand behind them, or at the very least are honest with the market your products are for. The problem, as with anything, is the constant laser-focus on increasing shareholder returns YoY, which is 100% based on image and 0% based on how good your products are. So companies start to think that since the returns are based on image, they can shortcut the returns by attacking that first, instead of, you know, doing what your business does better than everyone else.

[@arwo1143]

6ft of Concrete between floors That’s not a building anymore, that’s a fucking bunker….

[@shre6619]

Though, if you are dealing with Wall Street data (SEC data), you need to make sure, that its strong enough to resist, some heavy physical damage atleast.

[@denecity123]

@@shre6619 wtf is going on with your commas, bro??

[@DunDun-e43]

Not as cool as that At t 33rd in NYC building I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@kellymoses8566]

@@shre6619 You, do, not, know, how, to, use, commas.

[@jacobscheit4128]

@@shre6619Not the actual reason but a good guess. I think it’s fire proofing. Servers are pretty heavy and fire can easily damage the structure, to make sure a fire can be isolated and the rest of building is not compromised by even large amounts of damage in parts of the building.

[@ColonialDagger]

My dad works at Equinix and as such I've been to one of their data centers many times (even before it was Equinix), sometimes for "bring your kid to work day" back when that was a thing, a few times for tours, a few times to help him do a barbecue for the staff (which really ended up being me cooking), and more. I can confirm that every single time it's *really* cool. Top two rooms IMO is the room where all the networking comes into the building and the inertial generators they have in all their data centers.

[@alberte6109]

Did they enjoy your cooking?

[@ColonialDagger]

@@alberte6109 They said they did, who knows if they really did or they were being nice, but I have a feeling it was honest. It was about 180 people in total and it took me a good 5-6 hours to cook across 3 different grills and I actually ended up not even eating there was nothing left lol. I did it in a corner of the building that was open fresh air (historically they used to be done on the roof but after Verizon then Equinix bought the data center there was too much stuff on the roof to do it), and the smoke stain left a black mark on the white paint on the side of the building for a good 4-5 years until they remodeled it right before COVID. Now basically every floor above ground level is all data center, whereas before that floor was almost entirely empty storage. It's pretty crazy how quickly Equinix expanded in the past 10 years or so.

[@stephen01king]

​@@alberte6109 Since he was invited a few times, doesn't seem like they hated it, at least.

[@Exilum]

I almost expected it to be a company I knew of, but damn

[@roolark]

I thought it would be Esri lol

[@CatatonicImperfect]

SAP is another one

[@Neojhun]

@@roolark I use to work for Esri, soo I certainly know them. I knew of Equinix because it was big industry news when they built a DC in my city.

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@roolark]

@@Neojhun That's cool you worked there :) Even though they arguably are a monopoly, it's not necessarily their fault there aren't many good (or any) commercial competitors. I will say, they seem OK releasing expensive and often buggy software with slow patch/fix cycles, probably because there aren't other options for most of what they offer. PhD in Geography here :)

[@somedude5353]

We design Equinix data centres - they aren’t really a technology company. They’re essentially a real estate company selling space, power, air-con.

[@akiotatsuki2621]

Is Equanix the ones whom sets up the servers for lease? That in the least would make them a tech company

[@djchotus1]

​@@akiotatsuki2621not really. They rent empty rooms out to people who then put in their own servers

[@djchotus1]

If you could improve them. That would be super. They're not the best, we've had to stop using them.

[@somedude5353]

@@akiotatsuki2621They either sell rack space called “colo” or they sell whole data halls for “hyper scalers”

[@roysf8615]

They sometimes sell also Tech "products"

[@JamesR624]

3:20 Apple: We hav, Apple Park, the most impressive custom made building for a large company ever. Equinix: Hold my custom built foundation.

[@myownsite]

Data centers have lots of wild approaches to building.

[@corvacopia]

Apple Park is probably prettier

[@oussamabm3754]

full glass, every panel curved, with no support structure and a completely carbon fiber roof, with the power going through the space between glass panes, 4000+ slabs of 25ton concrete floors, larger circumference than the pentagon with 17 megawatts of solar panels on the roof? they ain’t on the same stratosphere bro. custom foundation? they made custom aluminium for this shit🤣

[@aqumu3150]

@@oussamabm3754well apple's is bonkers, but it's pretty and is meant to be public, so it's good for their image, but equinox's buildings are strictly business and their business is SERIOUS when you have all these things not because someone will think it's cool, but because you actually need it and it's financially viable

[@The_Otherguy]

15:08 Companies that let the expert be the expert are the way to go

[@hvwkplays]

I used to do server repairs for an org that used their data centers and it was exactly how data centers are portrayed in movies. It was insane. Can't wait to see this one 👀

[@Ahwleung.]

Data centers really are the coolest places on Earth. 2000 gallon tanks of diesel suspended in the air, so that they can be gravity-fed to generators to buy a couple minutes of time during a power outage to cleanly shut down servers. And thousands of batteries arranged in a row to buy 10 seconds for those generators to power up.

[@djchotus1]

Yeah. There are so many bigger players out there.... 4 to 5x the size of their DCs size in MW

[@NotCommanderShepard]

I actually sold their stuff for a few months back in 2023 but I still have no idea what they do. It came up as "Equinix" in the tender documents.

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@graysnail9232]

@@DunDun-e43 bro stop spamming this under every comment we get it youre a super nerd

[@KnowArt]

damn, tours like that are the dream!

[@dylangarcia9468]

square springs

[@Waterwater743]

Square springs

[@matteventu]

Awwww this video sparks so many memories! I used to work at Equinix between 2016-2018. Lovely company and culture really, and knowing you were working with the hugest customers in the best tiers data centres ("IBXs") of the world was an enormous boost for motivation. It makes me so emotional to see LTT talking about it ❤ (And thanks to the stocks I purchased at that time with the employee discount, now I still have a good chunk of savings that reminds me of the good times there 🤣)

[@DunDun-e43]

I thought it would Alkhaline network or more or less cloudflare

[@thebaldmaniac]

As someone who works in large enterprise IT infra sales, it's great to see Linus discover the nameless companies effectively running the world!

[@somedude2492]

8:42 i love how he just pops up in the middle of the video, super excited like "this is my moment"

[@renchesandsords]

The foundation being a foot above ground is such a bollard move

[@dylan10182000]

LMFAO that got a hearty chuckle out of me thank you :)

[@Melachiah]

I've been in multiple Equinix datacenters as a cloud Architect who maintains hybrid cloud infrastructure and one of their customers. Their level of security is so cool and a big reason why they're used by government and FinTech. Though it isn't the MOST secure datacenter. Those are arguably by a company called Syniverse... They have automated fully armed turrets in them. Also, LTT screwdrivers make regular appearances in their datacenters.

[@hariranormal5584]

some specialized datacenters just made for a specific purpose, and nobody even knows how it looks. for example datacenters that handle the SWIFT network, we know where they roughly are located (core data center in remote Switzerland) they are imo very incredibly protected

[@rexstuff4655]

That video is going to be WILD. I was fortunate to have a tour of just a minor Equinix facility a few years , and the stuff that goes on there is nuts. Fun fact: I came within a few seconds of being permanently banned from every Equinix facility, forever, but fortunately, my brain read the sign above the Emergency Door in the nick of time.

[@aldozampatti]

I've been inside the Equinix Datacenter in Dallas and just the Security outside and inside is mind-boggling :)

[@aldozampatti]

Now I hear the line of linus and the ECC... yeah :) That bad.... Also, AR-15 armed officers outside the building here in Dallas, FYI

[@southernodd4693]

As a non american who visited the Dallas DC I found it crazy. Everytime I walked into the DC they told me not to bring food or drink and most importantly, Hand guns. The main enterance with the fountain was also insane

[@aldozampatti]

@@southernodd4693 +1 I'm an immigrant myself, though I have been living here in Texas for a while now, so got used to the handguns warnings😉

[@IWearShoes31]

15:07 I would imagine a company operating at that level would know to trust someone that's an expert in their field

[@skyler5535]

8:00 i audibly said "WOW!!" out loud when they explained what that room was for, that is legit the coolest thing

[@el_es]

Equinix' data center entry booking is em.... legendary :)

[@treypop123]

I do datacenter structured cabling and I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO!!!

[@farab4391]

Reminds me of Barlows in South Africa. There are many big popular companies in SA which you think “wow, they’re huge, I would like to work there one day”, until you find out their parent company is Barlows, which few people have heard of.

[@Bezerker1181]

The thing I'm most curious about is why are they sponsoring a YT video? It's obvious that its not to get more customers. Like, who came up with it to start with and for what reason?

[@JollyGiant19]

More people watch LTT than you think, even ones with the big money to spend at companies

[@harrymack3565]

They are a publicly traded company, people might not become costumers, but they might become investors.

[@swe872]

investors, you would be surprised how really big tech tubers affect the share market

[@Bezerker1181]

@@JollyGiant19 Thing is, 99.999999% of us cannot even dream of being a customer. For those very few that need these kind of services and have the budget, do you think they don't already know about them? We are talking about the datacenter level above google and amazon. I wouldn't even be surprised if they just had an AI cook something up and want to see where its leads too.

[@siedenburg1]

I for myself wouln't even look at such companies because they would be too expensive, but I work for and with companies that have a multi billion budget and there something like that could be something I have to decide or at least influence for and sometimes for such things it's really hard to get any kind of information if you aren't already in that area.

[@TylerAdler]

Coworker did an install CH1 Equinix and there was ondeck security with mp-15s. My day job is managing datacenter access and contracts.

[@DigitalDiabloUK]

The maturity of both companies basically saying "we trust you to do what you do" is refreshing.

[@meol0390]

Their PR guy is very happy now

[@Brian_dub_]

Equinix and Digital Realty buildings are insane. One in Dublin was built on a man made hill so their WAN links could clear other buildings. Another cool company is Iron Mountain. Off site tape backup storage...the security there is fort knox level.

[@iamvinku]

I'm super excited about this video to drop. We never really get to see how data centers truly work and learn about the thought process behind certain seemingly strange decisions. I wish/hope Jake tagged along as well so we could hear his thoughts too, being the resident LTT data center guy.

[@medekhgui]

"just do what will get us the views" well now Im excited. I'd heard of them before, but this stuff is always so interesting.

[@alexcrouse]

I've built datacenters for Google and Facebook (and a few others). But this i want to see! Also, i've been in "the room". I had 6 guards with me. But "that room" was the certificate store, not the delay loop.

[@grumpyguss]

It's kind of funny because when you describe that security people think it's like "bouncer" level amateur security. These datacenters house stock exchanges so even one box cutter or a big splash of a water bottle could crash world markets. So when they say security these people WILL take you down if you're acting a fool like that. Companies like Equinix have DoD contracts and these people don't play.

... There are rooms and "cages" not to be named. Darn sure you signed an NDA as much as I signed both of the one you had to sign with these 2 companies... (Just saying)

[@alexcrouse]

2 year timer on those NDAs. It's plenty past.

[@8aliens]

There's a HSBC bank data center near where I live (UK) but its particularly interesting because it was designed during the height of the cold war, and has been just upgrade and expanded since. Like most have over the top security to stop people & armored vehicles. This ones spec "must be impenetrable by tank and able to withstand a direct hit from nuclear warheads". It's literally ridiculous, and almost entirely underground. The only things above ground are ventilation systems, a central security command tower with 360 degree view of the area, car park, expendable offices, and the ramp for vehicles to drive down into the data center.

[@GWConspiracy]

I am interested in the sustainability aspect, could it be a separate video? I want to know if datacenters can recycle water, re-use heat, do they research compression algorithms etc!

[@rkan2]

Go see Hetzner in Helsinki where they literally built a DC next to a district heating line going to a backup plant... Literally best place to re-use the heat, but nah, just vent it to the cold Nordic air...

[@pin65371]

I'm guessing they picked Ontario because they have access to nuclear power. The nuclear power plants use the lake for heating already so I'm guessing this is the same way that they dont recycle the water. The water comes in and cools the water and then dumps back in the lake. Interesting fact. The best fishing in the lake is where the nuclear power plants discharge the cooling water. The fish love the slightly warmer water.

[@fizzyoddcod]

I work in a Facebook datacenter, I’m very excited to see this video to compare to my datacenter. Hopefully it’s close enough that I can show the video to those who want a closer look at the datacenter I work in.

[@kadu51044]

I used to work in telecom and conferencing, and the places where I worked had gear in several of Equinix's facilities. They are legit. Their remote hands process was one of the most well designed processes that we used, and they make sure that they hire the best of the best that know what is needed. I am looking forward to seeing this video, as I have not been able to understand why they are so big.

[@DarrenCarllyle]

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

[@DigitalDiabloUK]

I'm making that into a sign and putting it up in the office.

[@BadDFWDrivers]

NGL, a video on efficiency would have been awesome. Or at least discuss highlights on WAN further for the truly interested ones.

[@ThePiquet888]

Mighty Car Mods FTW!! Awesome!

[@XGD5layer]

Give me the whole footage, I want to nerd out to the whole of it. I'll even sub to floatplane if I'll have to

[@EyesOfByes]

Crowdstrike was one of them, for many of us

[@skeery_guy]

Hi, I am a nerd too. I also like to admire conduit runs.

[@GoldenPickaxe]

I dare you to stand in front of that microwave dish Linus

[@JeffVan604]

He might accidentally drop it.

[@itaylori]

over a decade and a half of LTT and Linus is still maintains his contagious excitement about all types of comp tech

[@ISWYDTOR]

Hope this Equinix video is an hour long at the very least, I want to see all of this stuff.

[@HajheerForoutan]

Lol I thought they were more well known than that, I mean I understand non infrastructure people don't know them at all but they basically hosted any company I have ever worked for and I couldn't imagine linus and luke not even knowing about them.

[@jameseisterhold2000]

The fact Linus is so excited for the video has made me excited for it lol

[@butwhytharum]

im guessing you toured 151 front street. they have been on deep lake since its inception. one of the main reasons deep lake was even put in. also they dont own the building... a company called telehouse does.

[@myownsite]

That looks like a computer game building in google maps, it has the facade of a real building but windows are just black reflective surfaces and you can't get in.

[@butwhytharum]

​@@myownsite like linus said it is locked down.

[@butwhytharum]

and their other locations in toronto are too far for deep lake. no pipe goes out to parlimant unless they're wanting to get in on the east bayfront expansion currently in the works.

[@balint.k]

Hearing about Linus Tech doing a collab with MCM is awesome! Been watching both for over a decade.

[@BlitzkriegHD]

This is the company that Mr. Robot’s “Stone Mountain” was based off of!

[@krakakapaul]

What about silicon valleys, sub basement d, aisle 14, office 429.

[@rustydude93]

Woah thats super cool!

[@machine0182]

Makes sense with the story of the show, most big banks are colocated and run their trading infrastructure in those datacenters.

[@Infranix]

The company in the show is based on Iron Mountain, not Equinix

[@alej0rz]

there's another episode about a datacenter which is called Virtual Realty (S04E05) but I bet its not Equinix but Digital Realty, a real competitor of Equinix

[@DukeontheThames]

I work for Equinix and have been saying for so long that we need to get our name out there. Glad to see it finally happening.

[@Bamieater]

Awesome! I used to work in data centers years ago (including Equinix), and I am super excited to see where they are at now.

[@keithbuck99]

Gotta say I love the vids where its tech firms most people would never hear of showing off their cool stuff, just because they are proud of what they are doing and want to show it off!

[@theramblingbrit4431]

So very cool sounding video, but hearing linus say he's a fan of stageplays, it would be really cool if there could be a video on the tech side of theatre because here's a ton of awesome stuff in that space

[@jonas1015119]

Depends on the definition of biggest, but I recently learned about TE/Tyco Electronics, which basically makes every connector that gets soldered to your motherboard. They have like 90k employees.

[@boomerau]

Worked in one of these. They are awesome this is why you don't build data centres. Interesting to watch them grow when you have to move halls. There are contracts for water, fuel and other services so they just run.

[@mohedaicebear]

The way linus is describng the video already got me hyped this is peak LTT, if theres one video that will show linus passion i think it will be this one

[@dontbreaktheshadowofmylove]

quick question regarding the "using a lake to cool a data center"; does the heat dissipated using the lake rises the temperature of the lake/body of water? if so, wouldn't it be disastrous for the ecosystem of the lake/body of water?

[@jrevillug]

Yes, but that much power into a large lake won't be an issue. However, the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in Wales was lake cooled and yes, it did have an impact on the ecosystem.

[@shinjisan2015]

They purchase small data centres in key locations allover the world and expand them to attract Government and international clients. Until you need to interact with them, you would be highly unlikely to know they existed let alone where their nearest data centre is to you. And yeah, their standard model is they provide the outer few layers of physical security, which is intense by the way, and then the clients inside are responsible for securing their leased area to whatever insane level they deem necessary. Some literally have a single commercial door lock because Equinix security is enough, others have multifactor biometric security and blast ratings. Equinix is so huge because the service they provide is top-notch. Governments literally trust them with managing the junction points of international undersea fibre.

[@jekanyika]

2:40 There is a room like that in one of the offices I work in. Only certain people are allowed in the room, all I know is that it has something to do with the nuclear industry.

[@XavvvysArt]

I've been to the Equinix datacenter in slough in the UK in my last job! It was amazing experience!

[@JayzTwoCentzIG]

My YT glitched and the video had no audio so I was thinking "No wonder I haven't heard of them"

[@brainsoft]

I think ServeTheHome did a video inside AN Equinix DC a month ago, everything you mentioned I could visualize from recent memory including the raised first floor and finre runoff room.

[@wtfdinges]

I have always been amazed by these kinds of places. They are a quite literal black box from the outside and a goldmine of fun nerd stuff on the inside.

[@MoreSlopPlease]

Who else watched LMG for years, but now the clips of the wan show is the REAL LMG videos we love. just the fellas

[@MarcSherwood]

Somewhere around ~20 years ago, I worked for a database company, and went onsite to visit a large tech company that "nobody knows about" that was in need of scaling past their 18mill records per second that they were importing and updating. Even with my role, that was a lot of data moving about. During the first break, I was speaking with someone from their team when I learned what the org does. I felt dirty.

[@kathleennorchi1375]

The dev team at Equinix is incredible!

[@renderScene_iiFarm]

Excited to see some infra detailing the different ways one can excel. Drop the video!

[@neutro1234]

I work with Dell out of these DCs. Fun to see someone else finding pleasure in what I get to work with everyday ;) !

[@spdcrzy]

Linus, PLEASE make the raw and uncut version available on floatplane. I'd love to hear about the building efficiency details - that's the kind of stuff that isnt sexy, but saves hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars down the road.

[@VaraNiN]

Video when?!? Your factory tours are some of my favorite content in LTT

[@MarkAmaro]

as a datacenter tech that has been to a few equinix facilities they are not all like Linus had described.

[@CreaminFreeman]

As someone working at a place planning to build a datacenter, I am so hyped! Very much looking forward to the video!

[@d8alus]

I took a tour of Equinix NY2 in Secaucus NJ a few years ago... amazing facility. Actually at the intersection of two public power grids! When I arrived, I took a picture of the front door, because it was a futuristic nondescript thing with a hand reader and subdued lighting. The security guard saw me, and made me delete the photo before I could meet the person I was there to see 🙂

[@derekchapman6809]

Working with true big time professionals is often really nice because they know they're the best at what they do, and that you're much better at what you do than they likely ever could be. So they step aside to let you do what you do best, because that is how they expect to be treated in return as well. This is my personal findings/experiences, yours obviously may vary.

[@hrmny_]

The video better be an hour long

[@Ben.N]

I swear I've heard them mentioned in LTT videos before I'm surprised Luke didn't recognize the name

[@KnowArt]

wan show to make us ask 'wan??'

[@Mark_badas]

Wann

[@austinftwXD]

as someone who works in fiber optics, the idea of massive spools of bare fiber to equalize latency absolutely blows my mind.

[@Baker_king12]

Security control assessor here. The reason that your head of security will know that weight limit of a floor type question offhand is because that’s a question that an SCA will ask. We basically enforce the assessment of security plans through the NIST 800-53A and as a part of that we will do physical assessments where we will go into data centers and ask questions like that ask them how their fire suppression system works. Ask them how somebody gets in the building. Ask them how many doors are in the building, all sorts of granular questions, depending on the level of risk and their security plan. The ISO also has some sort of equivalent, but I’ve never evaluated by ISO standards. I’ve always evaluated by nest standards because my work is with the US government. Different organizations and different governments adopt different versions of the framework but essentially these are the people that I talk to when I go into a site to do an assessment. The type of facility you were describing probably would qualify as very high risk and would likely not only include the physical assessment but actual pen testing.

[@JediRhymeTrix]

Y'all do know that AWS/GCP, etc aren't actually hosted in Equinix data centers, right? If your company needs an on-prem or hybrid instance of some of their services and need a super low latency direct connection to the cloud service providers' data centers, then you work with Equinix to provision that.

[@dead-claudia]

aws could be using equinix for their edge networking and compute (like cloudfront and lambda@edge) - they don't normally run that out of data centers they own. and they're pretty transparent about that (but just not transparent about specific locations).

[@tau93]

13:36 OVER 256 data centers?!?!?!

[@cristinelcostachescu9585]

Hold on to your RAM, this goes over 8-bit addressing.

[@NiftyVT2]

We have a bunch of their data centers here in Northern VA. They even light them up at night in a variety of colors lol

[@D4M14N1989]

Kind of crazy to me that Linus and especially Luke had never heard of them. I have equipment in the local Equinix DC, didnt think they were that unknown compared to the other guys who often exclusively server Amazon/Microsoft/Google

[@Maadhawk]

The fair linkage thing is a requirement of the American Stock Exchange, not to be confused with the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. It too, is located in New York City.

[@danwat1234]

But the latency difference within the building is so tiny compared to the trading companies on other sites, greatly different distances from the stock exchanges connected to via satellite? How do they account for fairness of air-connection to exchanges distance differences?

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

More cables i guess

[@LukesBikes]

Knew it was equinix pretty quick - very excited to see that video!

[@playeronthebeat]

It's a bit sad that the climate stuff is left out. I'd love to have it in a video. Maybe a spin-off video or floatplane kind of exclusive whatever? I feel like this is really valuable information, too. Seeing how data centres can be designed more sustainable and stuff like that really feels important. That's why I do like the newer gen of processors, too. I'm happy in taking not as much performance or the same performance for way less power. Will be upgrading since I'm running a 2700X but ya. To me, it's really important seeing the sustainability aspect of such a thing.

[@scientress]

The data center where I had my servers in had a boat dock on the second floor. Why on the second floor, well it was so in the case of an extreme flood you can reach the datacenter by boat. The actual server rooms were starting on the 4th floor. The whole first floor was designed to be sacrificial in case of a flood.

[@responsiblechaos]

gotta love Linus geeking out on this.I expect to see a 6 sided fence installed in his home server room within the month. And as a side note, does the 6 sided cage act as a faraday cage?

[@Ray_of_Light62]

A set of delay lines to equalise the data transit time for many different financial exchanges. The equalisation if transit times is essential for high frequency trading...

[@AthenaHansen-ng1oo]

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

[@Chloe_Priceless]

LOL been in some Equinix Datacenter because our company has some colo racks there in a cage but this was 8 years ago as a trainee… didn’t know that they are so big.

[@Georgewilliamherbert]

I haven’t been in that one but anyone who’s been doing large systems from the late 1980s to 2010s will have been in similar or possibly smaller ones. Switch in Las Vegas is great. We pulled a game company out of the cloud and into there and it was amazing. Back when they only had half of the first building. Cable management and conduits are fun. My brother in law had done the data conduit and wiring at a building in Santa Clara that pre-Cisco WebEx used. I was going to give him a hard time when I started there but it was meticulous. Everything smooth and bundled and labeled and just pristine. You pay for that level of perfect but…

[@AngryMaritimer]

Seeing people get excited about tech these days is super fun.