The three highly secured data centers will host Orange business and residential customer data and services, as well as our own in-house information system.
For more than 10 months a year they operate without the use of air conditioning by using a free cooling system. The outside air and the design of the buildings provide natural cooling for IT equipment, thereby reducing their energy impact by 30% compared to older generation of Orange data centers.
The PPAs that Orange has entered into with Boralex, Engie and TotalEnergies cover the consumption of the three data centers with electricity from renewable sources.
With a Power Usage Effectiveness estimated at 1.3, these data centers rank among the most efficient in France.
Fabienne Dulac, Deputy CEO of Orange Group and CEO of Orange France : “These new data centers are truly strategic assets for the Group. They support the growth of our internal usage and that of our customers, in a framework of trust while significantly reducing energy and environmental footprint. These data centers marks a significant milestone to the consolidation of our data centers fleet : by 2030 our 17 historical datacenter will have closed and all our hosting activities will be concentrate of these 3 new ones”.
PPA: (Renewable) Power Purchase Agreements
PUE : Power Usage Effectiveness is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center. PUE is determined by dividing the total amount of power entering a data center by the power used to run the IT equipment within it.
