A pure-play data center
of experience
revenue in 2025
dedicated experts
designed or deployed since 2022
APL, a committed partner by your side
Since 1983, APL has been shaping the invisible foundations of the digital world.
First and formemost, we are engineers. 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 blends 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
“By 2030, the number of screens in the world is expected to exceed 50 billion. Behind each of these devices that surround us every day are data centers. Experts estimate that the data center market will double in size every 3 years.
At APL, this growth motivates and commits us.
Today, the development of digital economy can no longer ignore the question of its impacts. And since data centers are one of the first links in this economy, we, too, must question how we conduct our business.
In this context, APL carries a mission: Organic Design, data centers in symbiosis with their environment.
This means designing data centers that are secure, high-performing, and adapted to their environment. This symbiosis is also societal, as we place great importance on their harmonious integration into the local territory.
At APL, we carry a dual responsibility every day:
- The first is in relation to our clients and partners: for each project we deliver—whether it be consulting, design and building, or operations—we are committed to delivering on our promise of performance and sustainable IT responsibility.
- The second is towards our employees, whom we support every day in their development and career paths.
Together, we build not only your data centers, but also tomorrow’s more sustainable digital world.”
APL, a partner able to combine vision, technical expertise and
sustainable commitment.
Today, companies and public authorities need reliable, scalable and sustainable sites, able to meet their capacity needs and their environmental commitments. The challenge is no longer to just build, but also anticipate, optimize and design more intelligently.
APL, pure-play and pioneer in data centers
For over 40 years, APL Data Center has designed and built infrastructures that harbor the digital world, and allowed them to evolve.
As 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 digital technology.
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 within 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 throughout over 40 years of data center engineering, design and operation. Together, they guarantee our clients reliable, high-performing and sustainable infrastructures.
END-TO-END SUPPORT
APL supports you throughout your data centers’ entire lifecycle. From initial design to day-to-day operation, 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 over 40 years, our engineers have shaped the future of data centers by designing smarter solutions, expanding 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, lifecycle analysis, low-carbon design, renewable energy, sustainable operations.
APL Data Center, expertise on a European scale
Lab-by-apl: innovation at the heart of APL Data Center’s DNA
At APL Data Center, more than a promise, innovation is 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: carbon footprint reduction, 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 a dual challenge: accelerating the digital transition while supporting the ecological transition.
Excellence in the service of a sustainable future
Inducing the digital world to grow without weighing down the planet: behind every byte, every bit of data, every innovation, lies 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 in which we deliver 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 convey 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 no mere commitment—it is a continuous, internationally-recognized improvement. In 2024, APL was awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal, with a score of 78/100, placing the company among the top-ranking 5% of 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 territories and society.
They trust us
For over 40 years, APL Data Center has helped public and private players across all sectors successfully see their data center projects through.
Our references reflect the diversity of our missions and our ability to design, deploy and operate critical infrastructures which meet each of our clients’ challenges.
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