Compute more, waste less
Fully transparent data center efficiency and environmental footprint
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.
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’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!
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.