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 [1] 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 [2] 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”.
[1] PPA: (Renewable) Power Purchase Agreements
[2] 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.
