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 infrastructure as well as a territorial, environmental, social, and strategic one.
As the varied uses of AI accelerate and capacity requirements 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 such as availability, capacity, PUE…
Today, this is no longer sufficient, as performance goes well beyond operation. We now talk about LCA, carbon footprint, biodiversity, waste heat, or even eco-design.
At APL, data centers are designed with their entire lifecycles in mind, so as to address all digital impacts:
- energy consumption, carbon emissions, resource extraction
- health and working conditions
- governance
- responsible procurement, data protection
- relations with local communities and stakeholders
Responsibility does not stop at the company’s doorsteps. 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