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Fully transparent data center efficiency and environmental footprint

We are transparent about data center efficiency

We are proud to lead the way in recognizing the impact we can play in mitigating climate change by questioning the techniques used to run data centers. Rather than planting trees, we prefer to think outside of the box and innovate where it counts most, at the source.

We leave nothing to chance

Everything was clearly conceptualized and meticulously built down to the last detail to achieve a holistic approach and create exceptionally energy and water efficient data centers.

We are incredibly honest with you

We’ve built real-time dashboards (below) to show our data center efficiency and conditions, iPUE (Real-time Power Usage Effectiveness), PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness). Because we’ve always challenged the status quo, we will inform our customers about the environmental impact (energy consumption and estimated carbon emissions) of the products they use at Scaleway. A first in the industry!

More on our commitments

Real-time data center iPUE

We work hard to maintain extremely efficient data centers, and we use data including PUE to track the performance of our facilities.

DC2 

fr-par-1 – Paris, France

DC2 Datacenter uses only dry cooling systems and closed chilled water circuits, our WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness) is 0.

With its highly efficient chilled water cooling and UPS system, DC reaches a maximum PUE of 1.5.

More information about DC2

 

DC3

fr-par-1 – Paris, France 

DC3 Datacenter uses indirect free cooling with a closed-loop high-temperature chilled water system. Our WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness) is 0 as we do not use any water evaporation in our cooling process.

Dry-coolers are also used for the indirect free cooling system (free-chilling), through high efficiency water heat exchangers between these dry-coolers and IT chilled water.

More information about DC3

The holy grail of data centers, DC5

Eco-AZ fr-par-2 – Paris, France

DC5 Datacenter was designed as a hyper-scaling data center. It features a high-density design by default, combined with the lowest PUE in Europe at 1.15.

This highly innovative data center uses a direct free cooling system with adiabatic cooling to cool down data halls. Other rooms (MMR, Telco rooms, UPS rooms, etc.) use direct free cooling combined with an ice storage system.

More information about DC5

We are transparent about how we calculate your environmental footprint

At Scaleway, PUE is not just a marketing term. PUE is PUE, other ways to calculate efficiency should not be called PUE. Contrary to market practices, our PUE is calculated using the International standard ISO/IEC 30134-2:2016, backed by our ISO 50001:2018 certification.

Measurements are taken every five minutes by certified Class 1 or Class 0.2C true-RMS meters as defined by Directive 2004/22/CE (Measuring Instruments Directive). 

As defined by ISO/IEC 30134-2:2016:

  • Our PUE is a category 1 PUE and calculated with the last 12 months’ measurements
  • Total Energy power consumption (E-DC) is calculated on medium voltage from the national grid
  • IT Load (E-IT) is calculated on UPS output
  • Energy consumed by the non-data center equipment (such as offices) is excluded 
  • Real-time values are calculated by the last five minutes’ average measurements and must be considered as i-PUE for information purposes

The environmental footprint of the products* that you use at Scaleway is calculated with the following formula:

Consumption (average) in kW of the product * PUE of the data center * Energy MIX of the data center * Number of hours consumed by clients.

Data center guide

All certifications and information are communicated on demand at transparency@scaleway.com.

Data center Certifications PUE WUE Energy source Renewable Cooling system
DC2

fr-par-1

Paris

 ISO 27001:2013

ISO 50001:2018

HDS 1

Code of conduct

APSAD

 1.5 0 100% Hydraulic Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 Chilled water system
DC3

fr-par-1

Paris

 ISO 27001:2013

ISO 50001:2018

HDS 1

Code of conduct

APSAD

Tier 3 Uptime Institute

 1.31 0 100% Hydraulic Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 Indirect free cooling with closed-loop high-temperature chilled water system
DC4

fr-par-2

Paris

 ISO 27001:2013

ISO 50001:2018

HDS 1

Code of conduct

APSAD

 1.50 0 100% Hydraulic Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 EC (direct) with variable compressor (VRV)
DC5

fr-par-2

Paris

 ISO 27001:2013

ISO 50001:2018

HDS 1

Code of conduct

APSAD

 1.15 < 0.2 100% Hydraulic Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 Direct free cooling with adiabatic cooling
nl-ams-1

Amsterdam

 ISO 27001

ISO 50001

ISO 14001

ISO 9001

PCI-DSS

SOC1 TYPE2

 1.2 N-A 100% Hydraulic Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 EC on closed-loop hot water system & indirect adiabatic cooling
pl-waw-1

Warsaw

 ISO9001

ISO27001

PCI-DSS

 1.54 N-A 100% Wind Carbon neutral

100% renewable

 Closed-loop chilled water system

 * Excluding Amsterdam and Warsaw as we do not have the measuring instruments in place which permit us to collect this information.