Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 28 January 2011 until its acquisition by Digital Realty in March 2020.

[3] Interxion is headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk in the Netherlands, and operates 53 data centres in 11 European countries located in major metropolitan areas, including Dublin,[4] London,[5] Frankfurt,[6] Paris,[7] Amsterdam,[8] and Madrid,[9] the six main data centre markets in Europe, as well as Marseille, Interxion’s Internet Gateway.

[10] The company's core offering is carrier-neutral co-location, which includes provision of space, power and a secure environment in which to house customers’ computing, network, storage and IT infrastructure.

The financial hubs are accessible via a wide range of carriers and high bandwidth fibre connectivity providers.

The hubs also enable fast, easy interconnection with one of Europe's largest and fastest-growing community of cloud operators.

[10][21] In November 2019, Interxion announced a new contract deployment from global Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider Voxility for its campus in Madrid, reaching more than 90 carriers in this hub alone.

This has been integrated with Interxion's existing Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification ISO 27001:2005[27] standard for all of its European country operations.

The standard is designed to keep businesses operational during challenging times by protecting staff, preserving reputations and providing the ability to keep trading[citation needed].

[29] Interxion is a member of the following organisations: After joining the Green Grid association in 2008[36] and becoming a Contributor Member and part of the Advisory Council, Interxion has committed to continuously investigate efficiency opportunities such as free cooling as standard, ground water cooling, and waste heat re-use.

Continuous monitoring and measuring provides information about the environments and enables identification of opportunities to improve efficiency.