Equinix, Cisco, and NVIDIA Join Forces to Deploy Secure AI Factories Across Global Data Centers
June 16, 2026
Equinix, Cisco, and NVIDIA Join Forces to Deploy Secure AI Factories Across Global Data Centers
The race to bring artificial intelligence from pilot projects into full-scale production has long been hampered by the complexity of building secure, high-performance infrastructure. Addressing this challenge, Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, has unveiled a major expansion of its collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA. The partnership aims to deploy the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA across Equinix’s global network of data centers, providing enterprises with standardized blueprints and automated tools to simplify AI deployments.
As part of the initiative, Equinix is also working with Presidio, a leading global technology services provider, to establish a Programmable AI Technology Hub (P.A.T.H.) Lab. This lab, located within an Equinix data center, offers customers a real-world, production-grade environment to test, validate, and refine their AI infrastructure before committing to a broader rollout. The lab is built on the Cisco Secure AI Factory architecture with NVIDIA and is designed to support hybrid workloads spanning public cloud, neocloud, on-premises, and colocation environments.
“The success of enterprise AI starts with its physical foundation,” said Gordon Mackintosh, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Ecosystems at Equinix. “Our collaboration with Cisco, NVIDIA and Presidio delivers the infrastructure AI workloads demand while giving customers a place to prove it out before they scale. This is how AI shifts from pilot to production with the speed, simplicity and certainty businesses need.” By integrating these architectures into its data centers, Equinix provides the interconnection density, specialized power, and advanced cooling required to run the latest AI hardware and software at scale.
The move is designed to address a critical industry shift. “As agentic AI reshapes the industry, long-term success belongs to partner ecosystems that can adapt and innovate as rapidly as the technology itself,” said Cassie Roach, Global Vice President of Cloud and AI Infrastructure Partner Sales at Cisco. The standardized blueprints are based on NVIDIA reference architectures, which are purpose-built to reflect how enterprises typically buy and deploy technology—through trusted partners and on familiar infrastructure platforms.
Presidio’s Tim McHugh, VP of Partnerships & Alliances, highlighted the changing nature of AI success. “One of the most important shifts we’ve seen in the last 18 months is that AI success is no longer about finding the most powerful model,” he said. “It’s about building the infrastructure that can run AI everywhere it matters, without sacrificing data sovereignty or control.” He added that the P.A.T.H. lab allows Presidio to demonstrate distributed AI infrastructure in practice, rather than just promising it. This hands-on approach is expected to give enterprises the confidence to move from isolated experiments to enterprise-wide AI adoption, leveraging the combined expertise of Equinix, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Presidio.
Source: prnewswire
