APL Data Center CSR Report: Key Achievements and Future Outlook

In 2025, APL reached a new milestone in its CSR commitments, notably with joining the Global Compact and publishing its 2024 CSR report, which consolidates its initiatives and highlights its corporate social responsibility approach. Furthermore, our non-financial performance was once again recognized with the renewal of the EcoVadis Gold Medal, which ranks APL Data Center among the top-performing companies in sustainability.

On the social front, we worked on defining our values through an internal working group, appointed four harassment officers within our CSE, and established an SSCT committee. A profit-sharing agreement was signed to share the value created, and a social policy was deployed to establish the foundations for sustainable and equitable human resource management. Finally, during European Disability Employment Week, a serious game was used to raise team awareness about inclusion.

Regarding occupational health and safety, we updated our single risk assessment document and identified the five main risks related to our activities. "First Response Team" training sessions were provided, HSE site visits were conducted, and several awareness campaigns were organized to embed a culture of prevention within the teams.

Finally, on the environmental front, we made notable progress by conducting an environmental analysis and carbon footprint assessment of one of our intellectual services and making electric bicycles available to promote sustainable mobility.

For over 20 years, we have integrated energy and environmental issues into our projects, particularly during data center design. We continue to expand our dedicated sustainability team, composed of experts, PhDs, and innovation researchers, created in 2018.

Over the next two years, in a context of strong growth in our workforce and project size, we will strengthen our CSR approach around three priorities: governance, occupational health and safety (OHS), and anti-corruption. This is reflected in particular by:

• The creation of a CSR Manager position to coordinate our entire approach and strengthen our commitments across the four pillars of our CSR strategy: environmental, social, governance and ethics, and societal.
• Strengthening the Health & Safety team: following the creation of a Health & Safety Manager position in 2024 to oversee OHS risk management, particularly on data center construction projects, an HSE engineer was recruited in 2025 to operationally deploy our roadmap. The team will continue to expand in the coming months.
• The creation of a Compliance Officer position to strengthen our regulatory compliance and ethics policy, particularly regarding GDPR, business ethics, and anti-corruption.