The decisions that go into designing a new data center will stay in place for many years to come. For instance, the cooling solutions we put into a new data center often determine how the facility will consume vital resources such as water and energy. Equinix is committed to using water responsibly, which means we include a number of considerations about the local water context as we design our data centers, and we operate them efficiently. Last year, we were designing a new data center project in an area where the public had concerns about water stress. The facility was…

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