A pure-play Data Center player
+40 years
of experience
€115 M
Revenue 2025
315
dedicated experts
6.7 GW IT
designed or deployed since 2022
APL, a committed partner by your side for 40+ years
Since 1983, APL has been shaping the invisible foundations of the digital world.
We are engineers first and foremost. Curious, rigorous, pioneers, we are experts in the art of simplifying complexity.
Every data center we design, every solution we deploy, is bespoke, sustainable, and integrates seamlessly into its environment.
We don’t dream of an abstract digital world. We make it possible. Reliable. Sustainable.
In a world that believes in total dematerialization, we remind people that data also needs anchoring—solid, discreet, high-performing, and secure places.
We put human intelligence at the service of data—its security, its performance, its future.
We don’t just build infrastructures. We create the conditions for useful, sustainable IT—accessible to all.
Tristan Richard – CEO of APL
Building, together, the conditions for a sovereign and sustainable IT
- The first towards our clients and partners: for each project we deliver—whether consulting, design and build, or operations—we are committed to delivering on our promise of performance and sustainable IT responsibility.
- The second towards our employees, to support them every day in their development and career path.
APL, a partner able to combine vision, technical expertise and
sustainable commitment.
Companies and public authorities today need reliable, scalable and sustainable sites, able to meet their capacity needs and their environmental commitments. The challenge is no longer just to build, but to anticipate, optimize and design more intelligently.
APL, a pure-play and pioneer in the data center.
For more than 40 years, APL Data Center has been designing, building and evolving the infrastructures that house the digital world.
Recognized data center specialists, we turn technical complexity into concrete, responsible and high-performing solutions.
At the crossroads of engineering, consulting and sustainability, we shape the places where the digital world comes to life.
Our mission: anchor the digital world in reality
The digital world keeps growing, but it remains dependent on what makes it possible: data centers, the invisible foundation of the digital world.
In the face of this acceleration, data centers are becoming critical infrastructures where every parameter counts: energy performance, security, service continuity, carbon footprint. The digital world needs concrete, solid, sustainable and controlled solutions, capable of anchoring technology in reality.
Our mission is to design and deliver data centers with a long-term perspective, integrating performance, resilience, sustainability and innovation. We create environments that host today’s and tomorrow’s data.
Key capabilities for reliable, high-performing and sustainable infrastructures
At APL, our approach is built on four fundamental pillars that guide each of our interventions. These pillars are based on key capabilities developed over more than 40 years in data center engineering, design and operations. Together, they guarantee our clients reliable, high-performing and sustainable infrastructures.
END-TO-END SUPPORT
APL supports you throughout the entire life cycle of your data centers. From initial design to day-to-day operations, we orchestrate each phase with agility and precision to ensure long-term consistency, performance and resilience.
-> Key capabilities: consulting, design, project management, commissioning, operational optimization.
PURPOSE-BUILT
Each data center is purpose-built to meet our clients’ needs and to evolve with them. Flexible, scalable, always relevant—built to last.
-> Key capabilities: bespoke design, modularity, technology integration, resilience, compliance.
ENGINEERING-DRIVEN INNOVATION
For more than 40 years, our engineers have been shaping the future of the data center by designing smarter solutions, pushing boundaries and setting new standards.
-> Key capabilities: R&D, Innovation, advanced modelling, digital twins, technology watch, continuous improvement.
SUSTAINABILITY AT THE CORE
Our expertise integrates CSR into each of our actions. By tackling today’s environmental challenges, we strengthen digital infrastructures for the future.
-> Key capabilities: energy efficiency, life cycle analysis, low-carbon design, renewable energy, sustainable operations.
APL Datacenter, expertise on a European scale
Lab-by-apl: innovation at the heart of APL Datacenter’s DNA
At APL Datacenter, innovation is more than a promise: it’s a driving force.
To innovate is to anticipate and turn technical challenges into concrete, sustainable solutions for tomorrow’s data centers.
Our innovation approach is part of an overall strategy: combining performance, security and environmental responsibility. It is built on three essential pillars:
- Energy performance and sobriety: designing highly efficient data centers (optimized PUE, heat recovery, renewable energy).
- Emerging technologies: integrating AI solutions, digital twins and smart monitoring for optimal control.
- Sustainability and environmental impact: reducing the carbon footprint, component recyclability, responsible resource management.
Each innovation is tested, measured and industrialized in compliance with international standards (ISO, Uptime, RIBA Plan of Work), ensuring the reliability and traceability of our deployments.
Each year, we invest 4% of our revenue in R&D to meet this dual challenge: accelerating the digital transition while supporting the ecological transition.
Excellence in the service of a sustainable future
Growing the digital world without weighing down the planet: behind every byte, every piece of data, every innovation, there is an energy footprint we can no longer ignore. At APL, we believe another model is possible: one of sustainable IT, where performance and sustainability no longer stand in opposition.
Our mission: to design data centers that combine technical excellence, high availability and environmental sobriety. The way we deliver the service has a name: Organic Design.
Certifications as proof of our commitment
APL is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified, reflecting our rigor in quality and environmental management. These certifications translate strong convictions:
- Providing our clients with impeccable service quality
- Structuring our growth around sustainable performance
- Bringing our employees together around a shared ambition
- Reducing the environmental impact of our activities and those of our clients
- Advancing eco-innovation at the heart of our sector
Our CSR approach is not a simple commitment—it is continuous improvement recognized internationally. In 2024, APL was awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal, with a score of 78/100, placing the company among the top 5% in its sector. This distinction rewards our determination to act, innovate and build a future where the data center becomes the foundation of sustainable, responsible and human digital technology.
Thanks to our Tier Designer (Uptime Institute) accreditation, we guarantee our clients the highest standards of reliability and availability. But our commitment goes further: APL contributed to the creation of the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres, a European Commission initiative to encourage best practices in energy efficiency.
APL at the heart of its ecosystem
At APL Data Center, we believe that responsible commitment goes beyond our projects. That’s why we actively support associations whose actions have a positive, sustainable and solidarity-based impact on local areas and society.
They trust us
For over 40 years, APL Data Center has been supporting public and private players across all sectors in the success of their data center projects.
Our references illustrate the diversity of our missions and our ability to design, deploy, and operate critical infrastructures adapted to the challenges of each client.
Meet our experts
A strategic project, an ongoing reflection, or a need for expertise?
The APL Data Center teams are at your service to support you.