It is within our individual and corporate responsibility to make sure that how we build and power our quickly growing global digital infrastructure is smarter, more responsible and renewably powered in order to fight climate change. We believe we have a critical role to catalyze a transformative change in the consumption and production of energy and how we use it.

Because we’ve always challenged the status quo rather than build on normal, our datacenters are unique in the world, using 100% non-carbonated energy and in 2019 exclusively 100% green renewable energy. Our latest datacenter (DC5) uses a natural cooling system (no AC!) for a radically more efficient operation with nearly half the energy consumption.

We are Carbon neutral: Our carbon neutral datacenter design requires a much smaller percentage of energy spent on cooling and other non-computing power demand, designed on European Code of Conduct for data centers. Our environmental strategy revolves around two main clear and precise objectives, namely, the control of our energy consumption and the waste management in a context of strong development of the subscriber base and a very strong increase in uses. Our “free cooling” and adiabatic cooling system, the first of its kind in France  translates into an extremely low PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) at less than 1.15.

We are part of the circular economy: We have implemented the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) European directive in order to improve our environmental performance. Our electrical and IT equipment is collected and sent for reuse or recycling.

We are transparent : Our DC2, DC3 and DC4 have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) inferior to 1.3. Our latest DC5 has been designed from the ground up and offers a PUE of 1.15 for 24MW and 11 000m2 surface. We provide a real-time public analysis of our DC3 energy, available on https://pue.online.net/en. We are working on publishing all of our datacenters power usage in real time.