Migrate to efficient Equinix data centers

Minimizing the environmental impact of our data centers is core to our Future First sustainability strategy.

Typical requirements

  • Need to advance digital strategy while reducing your environmental impact.
  • Need to reduce the complexity of sustainability reporting.
  • Limited time & resources to respond to some of the 600+ sustainability regulations in 84+ countries1.​

1 Global Interconnection Index, Equinix.com, 2024.

 

Realized value

  • Opportunity to immediately reduce carbon emissions when moving from on-premise deployments. Workloads covered by 100% clean energy generate zero market-based emissions, as our auditable Green Power Reports attest to.​
  • Industry-leading data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) – reducing energy consumption and environmental impact of your workloads. 77% of on-premises data centers have worse PUE than colocation facilities.2
  • Benefit from our huge investments in the latest sustainable tech, from clean fuel cells to liquid cooling deployments, as well as 4.9B in green bonds.​
  • Gain a partner recognized for global climate leadership – Equinix made the CDP Climate A-list 2022 & 2023. ​

2 IDC InfoBrief – Turning IT sustainability investments into a business advantage. Equinix.com, 2023. 

3 Data Centre Magazine, 2023  

4 Equinix Expands Silicon Valley Campus with New $142M Highly Energy Efficient Data Center, 2021.

Solution reference design

 

  1. PUE = Power Usage Effectiveness, the standard metric for how efficiently a data center uses electricity.
  2. Infrastructure housed in Enterprise-owned or other third-party data center locations.
  3. Consolidate your IT footprint through digital transformation at Platform Equinix and produce zero market-based emissions from workloads.
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