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Côte d'Ivoire IBX Data Centers · Transition modelFACILITY

Equinix · data_centre · Abidjan, CI · 5.320, -4.016
basis: MEASURED · confidence: 0.65 · status: active

Climate & nature exec summaryAbidjan, CI · claude-sonnet-5 · 2026-07-07

Equinix's Abidjan IBX data centre carries Low baseline water stress but sits in an Extremely High overall water-risk basin (Gulf of Guinea watershed), driven by severe untreated-wastewater exposure rather than scarcity.

Today

The facility's dominant dependency is grid electricity for IT load and cooling, with GHG impact concentrated in Scope 2 emissions; no flow-level energy or water consumption data is populated for this site. Water-related physical pressure is atypical for a data centre: baseline water depletion is negligible (0.08) and baseline water stress is Low (<10%, score 0), but the overall water risk score is 4.28 (Extremely High, >75th percentile), driven almost entirely by an untreated-wastewater score of 5/5 and a moderate riverine flood score (1.94) in the Gulf of Guinea watershed. Coastal flood risk is scored zero despite the Abidjan coastal location, which warrants a data-quality check given the site's low-lying position.

Near-term · 2030

No 2030 horizon values are populated for either water stress/depletion (wd_future_score, ws_future_score) or the Côte d'Ivoire (CI) power grid emissions factor — both horizon fields are null. This means no forward decarbonisation trajectory or water-stress trend is currently available in Reverberate for this site; any 2030 view of grid intensity or water-stress evolution must be sourced externally, as the CI grid mix and its trajectory are undocumented in this dataset.

Long-term · 2050+

With 2050 and 2080 horizon fields likewise null for both water and grid indicators, no residual physical-risk or decarbonisation endpoint can be quantified from this dataset. The structural signal to monitor is whether Extremely High untreated-wastewater exposure and riverine flood pressure in the Gulf of Guinea watershed intensify as regional urbanisation and climate variability increase, independent of any water-scarcity trend given the Low baseline water-stress score.

Call-outs
RISK
Untreated wastewater exposure maxed
Untreated-wastewater score of 5/5 is the primary driver of the Extremely High (4.28) overall water risk rating, not scarcity.
WATCH
No grid emissions horizon data
CI grid horizon fields (2030/2050/2080) are all null, leaving Scope 2 decarbonisation trajectory unquantified for this site.
WATCH
Coastal flood score anomaly
Coastal flood score is recorded as 0 despite Abidjan's coastal location, warranting verification against local elevation and surge data.
OPPORTUNITY
Low baseline water stress
Baseline water stress (Low, <10%) and depletion (0.08) indicate ample raw water availability to support cooling operations without near-term competition risk.

Flows0 total · 0 in / 0 out · plus site context + supply/downstream

Inputs (dependencies)
WATER · site context · Aqueduct 4.0
REALM · FRESHWATER
BWS 0.00 · Low (<10%) · Gulf of Guinea
Water stress: 0.00 · 2030 · 2050 · 2080
Water depletion: 2030 · 2050 · 2080
Outputs (impacts + product)
None.

Compositions

Parent (rolls up into)
Children (0)
None.