environment

do what it takes to
protect the planet

Pressing environmental challenges, including climate change, require urgent collaborative action to ensure the sustainability and resiliency of our business, communities and global society. At Equinix, we are committed to preserving our collective future by taking responsibility for our share of carbon emissions and advancing a bold sustainability agenda across our business. We are leveraging our position as a large corporate buyer of energy by partnering with like-minded companies to advance low-carbon policies, sharing renewable energy buying knowledge and encouraging innovation to drive change. We are pioneering green data center design innovations and building and operating resilient, efficient and sustainable data centers around the world.

We will do what it takes to protect the planet and create sustainable value for all of our stakeholders.

Our Environmental Commitments

Addressing the Urgency of Climate Change Through our Targets

Becoming climate-neutral across our operations; making investments to ensure our residual emissions from Scope 1 are neutralized.

Scaling Renewable Energy

Reaching our goal of 100% clean and renewable energy usage across our global portfolio.

Designing for the Environment and Driving Innovation

Allocating funds to deliver sustainable outcomes across our business; our green bonds will propel our investments in greening our footprint.
Designing, building and operating sustainable data centers planned holistically to reduce our consumption of all resources.
Leveraging technology and innovation to encourage commercialization of solutions that will enable the “Data Center of the Future.”
Building and maintaining healthy and sustainable office settings for our employees.

Assessing and Mitigating Climate Risk

Recognizing and mitigating the key risks of climate change on Equinix’s business value proposition.

Advocating for Change and Inspiring Others

Partnering with like-minded organizations to advance environmental and climate change policies and accelerate action and innovation on key priorities such as renewable energy.

Environmental Highlights

Energy Consumption	Renewable Energy
550,000 U.S. homes’ energy use for a year 6,460 GWh electricity and chilled water	802 wind turbines running for a year 91% renewable globally 93% Americas • 74% Asia-Pacific • 98% EMEA 18 countries at 100% renewable
Carbon Footprint	Green Buildings
50% absoute reduction since 2015 2 million metric tons avoided carbon achieved from renewables	69% under certification by sq ft. 17.7 million sq. ft of gross floor area under environmental certification
Assurance	Investments
ISO 14064-3 Limited Assurance Energy, renewable energy and emissions Assured since 2015	41 MW fuel cells providing cleaner, reliable electricity 1.51 global average annual PUE 14 Energy Efficiency Center of Excellence Projects completed with a $5M investment and expected 28,000 MWh/year savings

Key Environmental Metrics

Environmental Data: Energy and Emissions

Metric	Units	2018	2019	2020
Energy Consumption*	GWh	5,180	5,700	6,460
Renewable Energy*	GWh	4,730	5,250	5,840
% Renewable Energy**	%	91%	92%	91%
Energy Intensity*	GWh / million USD revenue	1.020	1.028	1.077
GHG Emissions: Scope 1	mtCO2e	46,700	40,700	55,100
GHG Emissions: Scope 2 (location-based)	mtCO2e	2,079,000	2,079,000	2,280,200
GHG Emissions: Scope 2 (market-based)	mtCO2e	224,000	306,000	327,700
Carbon Intensity (location-based)	mtCO2e / million USD revenue	387	381	389
Carbon Intensity (market-based)	mtCO2e / million USD revenue	53	62	64

Energy and emissions are assured to ISO 14064-3:2019 standards for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.
GHG = Greenhouse Gas
*Energy Consumption Scope 2 electricity and chilled water

Accounting and Assurance

Equinix references the WRI/WBSCD Greenhouse Gas Protocol to calculate our carbon footprint. Our energy and renewable energy consumption, Scope 1, Scope 2 and most of our Scope 3 emissions are independently assured by Lucideon CICS to ISO 14064-3:2006 Standards for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.