APL helps Euclyde expand its Lyon data center and improve its reliability

Customer name : | Euclyde Data Centers |
Area of business : | IT hosting |
Accompanying mode : | Turnkey |
Type of service : | Design of a Tier III data center accommodating 1,000 m2 of IT rooms |
Euclyde Data Centers a fait l’acquisition d’un site à Villeurbanne afin d’en faire son DC5. Le bâtiment comprend à l’origine une salle IT de 300 m², en exploitation, et des bureaux.
Euclyde Data Centers has acquired a site in Villeurbanne for its DC5. The building originally housed a 300 m2 IT room, in operation, and offices. The hosting company hired APL to design a new 200 m2 room with the infrastructure ultimately needed to support 1,000 m2 of IT rooms.
Mission objectives
To design and develop a new 200 m2 IT room around the following needs:
- State-of-the-art features: service continuity, energy performance, and security
- Existing technical constraints: room in operation, building, standards, and regulations
- Future business growth: The site will ultimately contain 1,000 m2 of IT rooms
Services provided
- EXE studies and data center design
- Completion schedule for general contracting work
- Completion of development work with daily monitoring and risk management
- Commissioning and handling of work acceptance
Client benefits
- Design based on existing technical infrastructure
- Technical infrastructure capable of supporting 500 m2 of additional IT rooms at a later stage
- Wide-ranging assistance, from the design phase up to the data center’s acceptance phase
- Work completed without service disruption
- Optimized energy performance for the data center
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