How Equinix wants the internet to be ready for the metaverse

Equinix is one of the companies that provide the backbone of the internet, and it has more than 10,000 companies using its more than 240 datacenters around the world. And so it has a say in how we will build the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. 

Intel has said that the making the metaverse work in real time for billions of people will take a thousand times more computing power than we have today. That’s pretty intimidating, but to Equinix, this has been coming for a long time and the latest view of the metaverse is an evolution of the internet. Equinix has doubled the number of datacenters that it had a decade ago.