The Biggest Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of

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Linus took a tour of Equinix, “the biggest tech company you’ve never heard of.”

[Sam-gfue]

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

[myownsite]

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

[gingerman]

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.

[vincentvo]

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.

[tecno]

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.

[Exilum]

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

[arwo]

6ft of Concrete between floors

That’s not a building anymore, that’s a fucking bunker….

[LukasSmith]

Area 51 for tech and Linus got a tour, wow

[cheeseisgreat]

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.

[jcorey]

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

[The_Otherguy]

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

[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.

[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.

[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 👀

[JamesR]

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

[somedude]

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

[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 🤣)

[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!

[buenzli]

A note / caveat on the microwave link vs fiber optic thing. As per my understanding, the latency gain mainly comes from being able to provide a more direct route in a literal sense (i.e., less distance traveled) compared to cables in the ground. Because you can build microwave links close to the most direct route possible (as the crow flies) where cables in the ground can take all sorts of indirect path which are obviously longer.

[rexstuff]

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.