Inside the 'plumbing' of the internet that's powering the AI boom

Cristiana Gigina

(28 Jan 2026) ASSOCIATED PRESS Slough, UK - 27 January 2026 1. Various of fibre-optic cabling used to connect servers and networks inside one of Equinix's Slough data centres, allowing data to move between companies at high speed 2. Various of long rows of server racks inside one of Equinix's Slough data centres 3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Tyler, Managing director of Equinix UK: "Whenever we go online, whenever we do anything using the internet or anything digital, that information needs to