Equinix wins green innovation award

Data centre company Equinix has won Frost & Sullivan’s 2014 Asia Pacific Data Centre Green Innovation Leadership Award. The company won the award based on four key criteria: navigational positioning, execution excellence, technological sophistication and total customer experience.

Equinix was recognised as a trendsetter, leading the industry in the identification and implementation of green initiatives and meeting strict energy-efficiency requirements in all leading markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Every Equinix data centre uses technology and techniques that reduce environmental impact.

The company’s global International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre operations and engineering teams have implemented comprehensive conservation and efficiency programs that include energy and water conservation, solid waste reduction, pollution prevention and recycling. In Asia-Pacific, all data centres deploy:

• energy-efficient LED lighting systems coupled with motion-activated controls to reduce energy consumption;
• adaptive control systems that reduce power consumption and increase cooling capacity through active airflow management;
• cold/hot aisle containment that uses physical barriers to reduce the mixing of cold air in data centre supply aisles with the hot air in their exhaust aisles, resulting in lower energy consumption and more efficient cooling;
• variable frequency drives that are deployed in chillers, pumps and fans in Equinix’s HVAC systems to save energy by automatically reducing a motor’s speed and power draw to match lower system loads.

Equinix Asia-Pacific President Samuel Lee said the award “not only validates our green efforts over the past few years, but also reinforces our commitment to putting all of our data centres on an aggressive path for efficiency improvements”.

“Whether Equinix is building new data centres or upgrading existing facilities, we are committed to reducing our power consumption and carbon footprint globally and regionally,” he said.