Initiatives like these have led Equinix to be globally rated as one of the US Environmental Protection Agency ’ s Top 20 organisations , and seventh in Tech & Telecom ’ s Top 30 list of the largest green power users in technology just behind Microsoft , Google and Apple .
Awards and accreditations like these are very important to Equinix .
“ It ’ s always great to have stamps of approval ,” Green says , “ to say you ’ ve got all these designs , to be in line with that , because we have all these Service Level Agreements ( SLAs ) in place … it gives a lot of people confidence . Our customers get audited on their spaces just as we get audited , and so they need the sites to have certain accreditations , to tick the
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