India, Sept. 27 -- At its first AI Summit, Equinix unveiled a distributed AI infrastructure designed to meet the needs of businesses adopting advanced AI systems. The company outlined a new network backbone, Fabric Intelligence software, and a global AI Solutions Lab as part of its strategy to help enterprises handle workloads that extend across multiple regions and cloud platforms.

Equinix said its distributed AI model addresses the different infrastructure requirements of training, inference, and data sovereignty. Unlike traditional applications, AI workloads often span across geographies and require low-latency access to compute resources.

The company pointed to its 270 data centres across 77 markets as the foundation of this approac...