AI Spending Doubles: Why This $500 Billion Boom Makes Equinix a Buy for 2026

The world's top hyperscalers could spend more than $500 billion to expand their artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure this year, according to Goldman Sachs' (NYSE: GS) and FactSet's latest estimates. That's more than double their $237 billion in capex in 2024, and that figure should keep climbing over the next few years as the AI market expands. There are plenty of ways to capitalize on that AI boom. However, Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) is one of the simplest and safest plays on that secular expansion, ...