Equinix, the largest IDC service provider in the United States, announced that it will continue to use renewable energy
Recently, Equinix, one of the world's largest data center service providers and the world's largest data center retail hosting service provider, said that it would continue to pursue the goal of supplying power to its global data centers through renewable energy. Although the administration of President Trump of the United States tried to cancel the climate bill, and increased the uncertainty of the future of the renewable energy market in the United States.
Equinix's data center in Silicon Valley
Equinix spokeswoman Michelle Lindman said in an email on April 3, "Although the White House has reversed Obama's climate policy, our commitment to renewable energy has not changed our long-term goal of using 100% clean energy and renewable energy in our global data centers.
In recent years, data center service providers have begun to increase investment in renewable energy. For example, large data center customers such as Google and Microsoft prefer data centers using renewable energy to achieve their sustainable development goals. The cost advantages of wind and solar energy have been highlighted
Although it is not clear what the impact of the executive order signed by Trump on climate is, any major regulatory change is bound to affect the development of the energy market. The US President ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency to review the "clean energy plan", suspend the suspension of coal mining in the US, and called on the US federal agencies to determine the rules that hinder the US energy independence.
In addition to Equinix, another US data center supplier switch company also said recently that Trump's executive order did not change its plan to use renewable energy to power its data center facilities, Iron Mountain's corporate data center service department announced that it has obtained enough renewable energy to offset the energy consumption of its three data centers in the United States.
Equinix signed a wind and solar energy procurement agreement last year, and its total capacity is in line with the demand of North American data centers. The company also recently released its first annual corporate sustainability report.
