Sustainability Index Vendor Profile: Equinix

This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed view of Equinix's performance in IDC's sustainability framework. The framework has three pillars:The vendor's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance The vendor's sustainability portfolio, products, and solutions aimed at helping customers on their sustainability journeysThe vendor's altruistic efforts, includingactivities related to deploying technology for good (TECH4GOOD) causesThe document presents Equinix's performance on 150+ parameters across IDC's Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact (TSSI) framework for cloud infrastructure and datacenter service providers. It highlights areas where the vendor strongly outperformed the industry average. It also offers a view of the drivers and obstacles that will shape sustainability issues in the future.IDC selects vendors for profiles based on their overall sustainability performance on IDC's European Sustainability Index, their proactivity on sustainability issues, and their provision of information in a transparent manner.The following vendors were included in the overall analysis: AWS, Beyond, Colt Datacenter Services, EcoDataCenter, Equinix, Google, Green DC, IBM, IONOS, Iron Mountain, Microsoft, NTT Global Datacenters, Orange, OVHcloud,Salesforce, Scaleway, ServerHouse, Telefonica, and Telenor.