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Equity Method Investments | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract] |
Equity Method Investments | Equity Method Investments On October 8, 2019, the Company entered into a joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund (the "EMEA Joint Venture"), to develop and operate xScale data centers in Europe. xScale data centers are engineered to meet the technical and operational requirements and price points of core hyperscale workload deployments and also offer access to Equinix's comprehensive suite of interconnection and edge services. Upon closing, GIC contributed €152.6 million in cash, or $167.4 million at the exchange rate in effect on October 8, 2019, for an 80% partnership interest in the EMEA Joint Venture. Equinix sold certain xScale data center facilities to the EMEA Joint Venture in exchange for net cash proceeds of $351.8 million, as well as a 20% partnership interest in the EMEA Joint Venture with a fair value of $41.9 million. The Company accounts for its investments in the EMEA Joint Venture using the equity method of accounting, whereby the investments were recorded initially at fair value, which equals to the cost of the Company's initial equity contribution, and subsequently adjusted for cash contributions and the Company's share of the income and losses of the investees. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company made additional equity contributions of $7.6 million and $12.7 million to the EMEA Joint Venture, respectively. As of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company's equity method investments were $79.8 million and $59.7 million, respectively, and were included within other assets on the consolidated balance sheet. The Company's share of income and losses of equity method investments was not significant for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and was included in other income on the condensed consolidated statement of operations. As part of the sale of its xScale data center facilities to the EMEA Joint Venture, the Company also received a contingent consideration upon completion of certain performance milestones. The milestone payments are primarily contingent on the receipt of local regulatory approval for certain sites. The contingent consideration is considered a derivative and is remeasured at its fair value each reporting period using inputs such as probabilities of payment, discount rates, foreign currency forward rates and projected payment dates. The fair value measurements were based on significant inputs that are not observable in the market and thus represent Level 3 measurements. As of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the fair value of the contingent consideration was $39.3 million and $40.1 million, respectively, which was included in other current assets and other assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. Changes in the fair value of the contingent consideration were recorded in gain (loss) on asset sales on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 323 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965 + Details
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