Tuesday, October 29
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Cutting Power Costs and CO₂ Emissions: How Equinix Did Both with Fuel Cells

Clients choose Equinix, the largest vendor-neutral colocation and data center company in the world, for two reasons: reliability and resiliency. Equinix has a corporate goal of running its 145 data centers across five continents on 100% clean and renewable energy. Equinix wants not only to support its customers in an environmentally friendly way, but also to reduce its own $300M annual energy bill. As of 2016, Equinix had achieved 56% of its renewable goal through wind and fuel cell power. Working with Bloom Energy and a subsidiary of Southern Company, Equinix is rolling out fuel cell deployments at 15 North American data centers. By 2019, Equinix will generate 40+ megawatts of clean fuel cell power. Over their lifetime, these deployments will avoid 660,000 tons of carbon emissions and save 87 billion gallons of water that would have been used by natural gas or coal fired utility generation.