REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Jan. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company™, today announced the opening of its first
Co-Innovation Facility (CIF), located in its DC15 International
Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center at the Equinix Ashburn Campus
in the Washington, D.C. area.
A component of Equinix's Data Center of the Future initiative, the
CIF is a new capability that enables partners to work with Equinix
on trialing and developing innovations. These innovations, such as
identifying a path to clean hydrogen-enabled fuel cells or
deploying more capable battery solutions, will be used to help
define the future of sustainable digital infrastructure and
services globally.
Sustainable innovations, including liquid cooling, high-density
cooling, intelligent power management and on-site prime power
generation, will be incubated in the CIF in partnership with
leading data center technology innovators including Bloom Energy,
ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS) and Natron. In collaboration
with Equinix, these partners will test core and edge technologies
with a focus on proving reliability, efficiency and cost to build.
These include:
- Generator-less and UPS-less Data Centers (Bloom Energy) –
Utilizing on-site solid oxide fuel cells enables the data center to
generate redundant cleaner energy on-grid, and potentially
eliminates the need for fossil fuel-powered generators and
power-consuming Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) systems.
- High-Density Liquid Cooling (ZutaCore) – Highly efficient,
direct-on-chip, waterless, two-phase liquid cooled rack systems,
capable of cooling upwards of 100 kW per rack in a light, compact
design. Eliminates risk of IT meltdown, minimizes use of scarce
resources including energy, land, construction and water, and
dramatically shrinks the data center footprint.
- Software-Defined Power (VPS) with cabinet-mounted Battery
Energy Storage (Natron Energy) – Cabinet power management and
battery energy storage system manages power draw and minimizes
power stranding to near zero percent, leading to a potential 30-50%
improvement of power efficiency.
Quotes:
Deia Bayoumi, Vice President,
Product Management, Bloom Energy
"Bloom Energy's clean,
modular fuel cell technology is well-suited to meet the growing
demand for clean and resilient power among data centers. Building
upon our continued collaboration with Equinix, we're proud to bring
our solution to the CIF and move the industry toward a more
sustainable future. By generating power on-site with high levels of
power availability and needed resiliency, data centers can take
control of their sustainable energy needs. Bloom's technology
eliminates reliance on electricity utilities to meet capacity
requirements as well as highly pollutive diesel generators to
provide backup power."
Udi Paret, President,
ZutaCore
"ZutaCore is honored to be featured at the CIF
and partner with Equinix to advance the proliferation of liquid
cooling on a global scale. Together we aim to prove that liquid
cooling is an essential technology in realizing fundamental
business objectives for data centers of today and into the future.
HyperCool™ liquid cooling solutions deliver
unparalleled performance and sustainability benefits to directly
address sustainability imperatives. With little to no
infrastructure change, it consistently provides easy to deploy and
maintain, environmentally friendly, economically attractive liquid
cooling to support the highest core-count, high power and most
dense requirements for a range of customer needs from the cloud to
the edge."
Dean Nelson, CEO Virtual Power
Systems (VPS)
"Data centers of the future are
software-defined. Our collaboration with Equinix, Natron Energy and
CE+T in the Co-Innovation Facility showcases how VPS software
unlocks stranded power, driving up utilization and enabling
cloud-like flexibility on-prem. We're proud to do our part in
advancing Equinix's sustainability goals."
Colin Wessells, CEO, Natron
Energy
"Natron is pleased to be an active part of the
Equinix CIF with the deployment of our safe, sustainable,
high-efficiency sodium-ion batteries. Natron's Prussian blue
sodium-ion batteries with >50,000 cycle-life, rapid
charge/discharge and immediate availability are enabling new levels
of IT system performance along with facility optimization within
data center and edge deployments as demonstrated by
Equinix."
Raouf Abdel, EVP, Global
Operations, Equinix
"The data center of the future must
be sustainable. Equinix is committed to sustainability globally as
evidenced by its target to be climate neutral across our business
by 2030. We are well on our way with over 90% renewable energy
coverage worldwide. And thanks to the work we're doing with
partners at the CIF, we're continuing to make significant
advancements in the way we design, build and operate our global
platform, with high energy efficiency standards."
Highlights / Key Facts:
- The Washington, D.C. area
remains one of the most highly interconnected regions powering the
global digital economy. Equinix's data center campus in Ashburn,
VA—home to the largest internet peering point in North America and one of the largest in the
world—is a strategic communications hub for the eastern U.S. and a
major gateway to Europe. The
campus is the single most-dense interconnection hub in the U.S.,
providing proximity to financial enterprises, government, content
and digital media services, global networks and cloud service
providers.
- Last year, Equinix became the first in the data center industry
to commit to globally reaching climate-neutral status by 2030,
backed by science-based targets and an aggressive sustainability
innovation agenda. Aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement, this
is a critical step to ensure that Equinix continues to advance
investments and innovations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
- Equinix's approved emissions reduction target by the Science
Based Target initiative (SBTi) builds on the company's strong track
record of sustainable growth and innovation, including achieving
over 90% renewable energy coverage for its data centers since
2018.
Additional Resources:
- Equinix Invests $200 Million in
Washington, D.C. Area Data Center
Expansions
- The Global Interconnection Index Vol. 5
- Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey
- Equinix Annual Interactive Sustainability Report (ISR)
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the
world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to
harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the
foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix
enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners
and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix,
they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services,
deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in
such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such
differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of
acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data centers and
developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and
solutions, unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a failure to
complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this
press release.
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