Supporting your decisions for your critical infrastructures.
Consulting - Data Center Strategy
In an environment where data is at the heart of business performance, every hosting decision has a long-term impact on your organization. APL supports companies and hosting providers in defining robust, scalable data center strategies aligned with their business challenges.
A pure player in the data center sector for over 40 years, APL relies on nearly 200 expert engineers to analyze your current setup, qualify your needs, and build a reliable, measurable, performance-driven roadmap.
A strategic approach, ROI-driven
We get involved upstream of your projects to inform your key decisions:
- Hosting strategy (on-premise, colocation, cloud, hybrid)
- Land search, site analysis and capacity studies, permitting
- Opportunity studies and 5-, 10-, 15-year evolution scenarios
- Analysis of technical, operational and environmental risks
- Economic simulation and investment modeling
- Techno-economic benchmarking of market solutions
Each recommendation is backed by comparative analyses, performance indicators, and a projection of return on investment.
Support from APL Data Center
Audit, understand, prioritize
APL carries out comprehensive audits to identify optimization levers:
- Service continuity (BCP, DRP, redundancy)
- Infrastructure security and safety
- Energy performance and PUE optimization
- Capacity and scalability of installations
- Analysis of operating and maintenance procedures
Our assessments help prioritize high-impact actions, balancing performance, security and cost control.
Structuring your data center trajectory
Beyond the assessment, we support you in implementation:
- Defining an operational roadmap
- Budgeting and investment planning
- Setting up management indicators (KPIs, SLAs)
- Owner’s representative assistance (AMOA)
- Support in selecting hosting providers or technical solutions
Identify the optimal site for your project
APL puts its knowledge of stakeholders and the market at the service of your ambitions, and reconciles real estate and technical challenges to identify the land suited to your digital infrastructure projects.
- Land search
- Site analysis
- Capacity studies
- Support with electrical and fiber connection
- Support with local authorities, ICPE component
Our solutions
APL Data Center designs and optimizes critical infrastructures capable of meeting the major challenges of the digital age: data security, service continuity, scalability, cost control, and sustainability.
Through a global approach integrating innovation and CSR, we support every type of client in creating next-generation data centers tailored to their uses and constraints.
Hyperscaler
Hyperscale data centers are now at the heart of digital growth driven by cloud and AI. They are changing scale: in just a few years, power levels have multiplied, projects are faster, larger, and of unprecedented energy density. These infrastructures are now true high-intensity digital factories, where every decision has major impacts.
Edge
In a rapidly growing and increasingly competitive market, hosting providers and Edge players must combine speed of deployment, technical performance, local acceptability, and economic competitiveness. They must also integrate growing constraints related to energy access, real estate, and environmental requirements.
Private enterprise
It is an essential foundation for digital growth, driven by the rise of cloud and AI, in a context of rapidly increasing power and requirements. It must be reliable, secure, high-performing — but also aligned with the organization’s economic, environmental and strategic priorities.
Public sector
In a context where data centers have become essential foundations for digital growth and the transformation of public services, they are now true strategic infrastructures serving the economy and regions.
Our approach
Organic Design
With the Organic Design approach, APL Data Center reinvents the hyperscale data center by combining energy efficiency, intelligent integration and sustainability.
This approach optimises PUE, reduces the carbon footprint and resource use, while ensuring high levels of performance, reliability and regulatory compliance.
Why APL?
For over 40 years, APL has exclusively supported data center players with recognized expertise built in the field, through thousands of projects. A recognized independent player at the European level, APL brings a global vision of critical infrastructures, integrating the technical, economic and strategic dimensions of each project.
Our approach covers the entire data center life cycle, from design to operations, balancing performance, security and energy efficiency. Thanks to this end-to-end expertise, we help our clients build sustainable, scalable infrastructures capable of meeting tomorrow’s challenges.
Choosing APL means relying on a partner committed for the long term..
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.