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Equinix has been named a Leader in a new global assessment of data centre sustainability by research group IDC MarketScape.
The study is IDC's first worldwide evaluation of sustainability practices among data centre services providers. It assesses strategy and execution over a three to five-year period and in the near term.
IDC cites waste heat reuse as one area of progress. Equinix exported 14.5 GWh of residual heat from its data centre operations in 2024.
This represented a 245% increase over the previous year. Sites in Helsinki, Toronto and Paris supplied excess thermal energy into municipal district heating systems and local community facilities.
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