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Equinix (EMEA) Holdings B.V.

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Vincent Berrutto (Head of Unit Energy) and Flint Europe

27 Jan 2026 · Exchange of views on digitalisation of the energy system from the perspective on data centres integration into the system.

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

26 Jan 2026 · EU Cloud Policy

Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2026 · Digital sovereignty

Meeting with Pilar Del Castillo Vera (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Nov 2025 · Digital Infrastructure Policy

Meeting with Nicolás González Casares (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Oct 2025 · Energy-efficient datacenters

Response to European grid package

5 Aug 2025

Dear European Commission, Equinix is the worlds digital infrastructure company, operating more than 250 data centres globally and a leading interconnection provider. We support over 10,000 customers, including the worlds largest cloud platforms, financial institutions, AI developers, and public sector bodies. In Europe, Equinix operates over 80 data centres across the continent. We are proud to have invested billions in the EU, operating across 11 Member States (Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Sweden) and 19 metros. Our customers include the worlds largest tech companies and cloud platforms, financial institutions, public services and critical national infrastructure. As part of our Build Bolder strategy, Equinix is doubling investment in new data centres; and we are proud of our role in supporting the European digital economy and industrial capability. We welcome the Commissions Call for Evidence on the Grids Package as a crucial opportunity to create infrastructure conditions that enable sovereign, trusted, and competitive AI in the EU. However, success will depend on bold reforms to improve energy access, grid capacity, and energy security: each an essential input for next-generation infrastructure deployment. Today, grid connection delays regularly extend project timelines by years, increasing costs and slowing deployment. Equinix offers this submission to support European industrial competitiveness, energy strategic autonomy, and the EUs ambitions for AI and digital innovation in this regard. Data center operators are uniquely incentivized to help increase the supply of renewable energy to the grid. Theres a direct correlation between the stability of energy grids and the reliability of the data centers on those grids. Our Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are a significant step forward, contributing to additionality in the grid and ensuring our operations are covered by 100% renewable energy across 96% of our global portfolio. Our goal is to achieve 100% clean and renewable energy across our global portfolio by 2030. To date, we have committed to PPAs with a total generation expectation of roughly 3,250 GWh globally. Equinix is also committed to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the value chain (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 2040. Equinixs 2040 long-term science-based target has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Our science-based targets demonstrate our leadership within the industry to our stakeholders our investors, our customers, regulators, our communities and our employees. We have also put 4,000 MWh of recovered heat back into communities annually. This amount by itself is not game-changing, but were working to continue scaling up our program. More importantly, it speaks to the fact that we all must approach the challenge of building a reliable, sustainable energy grid from a systemic perspective. It is in this context that we are delighted to add the attached contribution to the EU Call for Evidence; and remain at your disposal for further discussion to enhance the energy grid for consumers, customers, communities and the corporate entities that service them. We remain at your disposal to discuss further. Best Ms. Anna Solar-Bassett Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, EMEA Equinix
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Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Acting Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

10 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the Cloud and AI Development Act

Response to Cloud and AI Development Act

3 Jul 2025

Equinix is a world leading data centre company and interconnection leader, and key enabler of European AI deployment. We are the backbone of Europes digital infrastructure; providing densely connected, high performance data centres with a focus on sustainability that give our clients control, ownership and sovereignty over their data. Since 2016 we are proud to have invested over billions in the EU, operating across 11 Member States (Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Sweden) and 19 metros. Our customers include the worlds largest tech companies and cloud platforms, financial institutions, public services and critical national infrastructure. In Europe, Equinix directly employs thousands of people and enabling critical interconnection hubs across sectors. In recent years, we have committed to our Build Bold strategy, with growth markets outside the traditional areas of data centre investment (the FLAP-D, or Frankfurt/London/Amsterdam/Paris/Dublin) an increasing area of operation, in addition to traditional markets. We play a foundational role in Europes internet, data economy and AI ecosystem. As such, Equinix welcomes the Commissions proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act, as a major opportunity to create the infrastructure conditions needed to scale sovereign, trusted and competitive AI in the EU. However, success will depend on radical shifts in how the EU supports energy access, grid capacity, land permitting, and digital connectivity the essential inputs to next-generation infrastructure deployment. We applaud the European Commissions vision, which clearly reflects the pace and scale of change required to achieve the industrial competitiveness, sovereignty and AI economic investment agenda outlined in the Draghi Report: now action on substantive policy reforms necessary are crucial to show committed action. As highlighted in EUDCAs State of European Data Centres 2025 report, land permitting and energy access remain critical bottlenecks constraining the growth of AI-ready data centres across Europe. The availability of suitable deployment sites is notably more limited here than in comparable markets. The Commission rightly recognizes that outdated grid infrastructure, limited fibre connectivity, and legacy municipal permitting frameworks stall progress, necessitating dedicated modernization funding and regulatory simplification. AI and data centres are the backbone of the 21st-century digital economy, akin to steel and silicon in the industrial age. Europe must build its AI economy in metro hubs where networks converge, ensuring green, reliable, and sovereign infrastructure through coordinated grid modernization, regulatory reform, and strategic funding. Only then can Europe secure its place as a global AI leader and reap the full benefits of its 200 billion AI investment. We are delighted to offer insights in this respect in the White Paper proposals attached in Annex 1 below; and remain at your disposal for further discussion. Kind regards, Ms. Anna Solar-Bassett Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy, EMEA
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Response to Reporting scheme for data centres in Europe

15 Jan 2024

Please find attached Equinix's feedback on this draft delegated act.
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Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

15 Nov 2023 · EU Digital Policy