User:MaryGaulke/sandbox/Equinix requests

Hi, COI editor for Equinix here again, with some new requests:

Lead

 * In infobox, update
 * num_employees     = 8,700
 * num_employees_year = 2020
 * to
 * num_employees     = 10,013
 * num_employees_year = 2020


 * In first paragraph, update
 * The company is a leader in global colocation data center market share, with 210 data centers in 25 countries on five continents.
 * to
 * The company is a leader in global colocation data center market share, with 220 data centers in 26 countries on five continents.


 * In second paragraph, update
 * as of 2020, it had approximately 8,700 employees globally.
 * to
 * as of December 2020, it had approximately 10,000 employees globally.

History

 * Add to end of second paragraph:
 * In September 2020, the company shifted its branding to describe itself as a "digital infrastructure company".


 * Add to end of "Acquisitions and expansion":
 * The company expanded into India in August 2020 with the acquisition of GPX India, including a campus in Mumbai with two data centers. In October 2020, Equinix completed the acquisition of 13 Bell Canada data centers.  The company also invested heavily in hyperscale xScale data centers.

Data center (IBX) locations

 * One of the sources for this section is now a broken link. I think it makes sense to delete it and just keep the other source . If we want to replace it, we could use . There are other external listings, but they're not up-to-date.
 * Per the sources, add Mexico to the "Americas" list.

Environmental impact

 * I think it makes sense to make this a subsection of "History".
 * It could also make sense to move some information from the "Acquisitions and expansion" subsection of History to here. Specifically, this paragraph (updating "The same year" to "In 2015"):
 * The same year, the company made a long-term pledge to power its entire data center platform with clean and renewable energy. The pledge followed criticism in 2014 from the environmental group Greenpeace, which said in an annual report on the environmental practices of Internet companies that Equinix had an insufficient commitment to renewable energy and carbon emissions mitigation. The company signed deals with wind farms in Texas and Oklahoma to buy enough renewable energy to offset the energy consumption of its North American data center portfolio.
 * As well as the penultimate paragraph:
 * In 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named Equinix one of 17 Green Power Partners leading the transition to renewable energy.


 * Add after the above but before the current section contents:
 * In September 2020, Equinix priced $1.35 billion in green bonds to finance new and existing green projects. At the same time, the company announced a Green Finance Framework to standardize transparency reporting for green debt disclosures. In November 2020, the EPA gave Equinix its 2020 Green Power Partner of the Year award.

Thank you for your time and your feedback.