Equinix Awarded Green Certificate
Equinix Switzerland awarded green energy certificate
October 9, 2007
ZURICH -- Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, today announced that its four Switzerland based centres have been certified as operating on 100% green energy.
The companys three Zurich based centres were recently certified by Naturemade Star, the Swiss label for green power production and green electricity products. These centres receive hydropower provided by ewz, the Zurich-based electricity supplier. Equinix’s Geneva centre was converted to hydropower at the beginning of 2005 and has received the same certification.
Dr. Conrad Ammann, Direktor of ewz comments: “Since 1 October 2006, our customers have been able to choose the nature of their electricity themselves. We are delighted that Equinix has decided to do their part for the environment by drawing electricity from our EWZ Watertop product which provides pure Eco-current drawn from a hydroelectric power plant certified by Naturemade Star.”
Equinix Inc.
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