Organic Design
There is no high-performance data center without sustainability, and no sustainable data center without performance.
The data center is no longer just a technical infrastructure. It is becoming an energy, territorial, environmental, social, and strategic infrastructure.
As AI usage accelerates and capacity needs increase, the ability to reconcile performance, sobriety, and acceptability is essential.
For a long time, data center performance was summarized by a few technical indicators: availability, capacity, PUE…
Today, this is no longer enough, and performance no longer stops at operations. We now talk about LCA, carbon footprint, biodiversity, waste heat, or even eco-design.
At APL, the data center is designed throughout its entire life cycle to address all digital impacts:
- energy consumption, carbon emissions, resource extraction,
- health and working conditions,
- governance,
- responsible purchasing, data protection,
- relations with local communities and stakeholders.
Responsibility does not stop at the company’s borders. At APL, the entire value chain is involved: extra-financial qualification of suppliers, CSR clauses in contracts, code of conduct, ethical criteria…
The Lab by APL puts innovation at the service of sustainability through its work, particularly on:
- Direct Liquid Cooling,
- low-carbon materials,
- wooden structures,
- digital twins,
- heat recovery,
- AI-adapted infrastructures.