Equinix introduces AI Discovery Hub to accelerate AI innovation and Deployment in Hong Kong

Establish an open AI testing environment by deploying an AI factory at-scale solution from HPE with NVIDIA NemoClaw reference stack in Equinix AI-ready data center

HONG KONG – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) announced a strategic collaboration with HPE to establish AI Discovery Hub, an NVIDIA-powered open AI testing environment, to accelerate AI innovation and deployment in Hong Kong, supporting the city’s ambitions to advance AI adoption across industries. The AI Discovery Hub brings together an AI factory at-scale solution from HPE with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, software, and guardrails to Equinix’s interconnection-rich, cloud-dense ecosystems in Hong Kong, helping enterprises build, deploy and scale AI securely across hybrid and multicloud environments, with embedded governance for data-sensitive and regulated workloads.

As companies move from pilots to production, AI deployments often stall due to practical constraints. These include siloed data and infrastructure, limited AI-ready power and cooling, latency and throughput bottlenecks when moving large datasets, fragmented access to clouds and partners, and governance requirements that are difficult to implement consistently across distributed environments. The joint offering of AI Discovery Hub is designed to meet these requirements by providing an AI-ready foundation where datasets, models and ecosystem partners can converge in close proximity to clouds and networks, supported by automation to reduce manual effort and enable proactive optimization.

The joint AI Discovery Hub will offer:

• A comprehensive, globally distributed AI ecosystem through Equinix to support modern AI workloads such as agentic AI, high-performance training, real-time inference, edge AI, and secure data mobility. Through HK6, Equinix’s AI‑ready infrastructure delivers direct‑to‑chip liquid‑cooling technology that supports GPUs far exceeding the thermal limits of traditional air‑cooled data centers.
• AI factory at-scale solutions from HPE provide a full stack of infrastructure, software, and services that enable organizations to design, build, and operate AI architectures and workflows, at any scale, to speed time to AI value. The AI factory at-scale from HPE combines NVIDIA AI software, accelerated infrastructure, and high-performance, low-latency networking with built-in guardrails and governance modules to support secure, efficient, and traceable AI operations.
• Enterprise-grade agentic AI guardrails through NVIDIA GPU with NVIDIA NemoClaw and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, an open‑source reference stack designed to make OpenClaw autonomous AI agents safer with policy-based controls. This includes NVIDIA OpenShell to enforce policy-based privacy and security plus auditable runtime features designed for regulated and data sensitive environments, supporting deployment across on premises and cloud environments.

The AI Discovery Hub will become available in the second half of 2026. Companies can leverage the environment to test and validate AI applications before full scale deployment, enabling them to evaluate performance, compatibility, and operational workflows under real-world conditions while maintaining low latency.

Spokespeople quotes:

Joanne Hon, Managing Director, Equinix Hong Kong
“Hong Kong is at an inflection point where AI is moving from experimentation into day-to-day operations. That shift shows up immediately in how much data enterprises need to move and the speed at which they need to move it. As enterprises scale AI, they quickly run into practical constraints around latency, throughput, cloud access and governance. This is exactly the gap this collaboration addresses. Combining Equinix’s interconnected, AI-ready infrastructure and ecosystem with an AI factory at-scale from HPE and NVIDIA AI infrastructure and software offers customers a clear path to deploy AI closer to their data and users.”

Ashok Pandey, VP of Operation, Asia Pacific, NVIDIA
“Enterprises in every industry are racing to ready AI agents to help people transform the way they work by unlocking incredible productivity gains. Pairing NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software like the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime on an AI factory at-scale from HPE with Equinix’s interconnect platform in Hong Kong delivers a secure and efficient path for full-stack AI infrastructure to fuel real-world success.”

Vincent Kwok, Managing Director, HPE Hong Kong and Macau
“Today, models, data, and workloads are spread across clouds, networks, and locations—creating a challenge that enterprises can no longer overlook. HPE is focused on helping organizations operationalize AI in the real world by bringing these elements together through a unified operating model without adding complexity. By integrating an AI factory at-scale from HPE with Equinix and NVIDIA, we are enabling customers to operationalize AI seamlessly across the entire lifecycle, through a comprehensive solution that is multi-tenant, highly scalable, flexible, and cost-optimized.”

Additional Resources

• Equinix Expands Hong Kong’s Footprint with $124M Data Center Investment [Press Release]
• Hong Kong’s Internet Exchange Hits Record High, with Equinix Powering 42% of Capacity [Press Release]

About Equinix
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