APL is supporting Poulina Group Holding (PGH) in designing and delivering the largest Tier IV data center in Tunisia

Published on May 27, 2026 -

Poulina Group Holding, Tunisia’s leading privately owned group, aims to pursue its diversification strategy, position itself in the information technology and services market, and develop activities that create skilled jobs.

Client company

DataXion (Poulina Group Holding)

Industry

IT hosting

Type of support

Conseil - Assistance à maîtrise d'ouvrage - Formation

Type of service

Conception et réalisation d’un data center à haut niveau de continuité de service, évolutif et éco-performant

Context and objectives of the assignment

In 2011, the group decided to enter the IT hosting market. It called on APL to help design a 3,760 m² site, including 1,200 m² of IT space, primarily intended for colocation.

Build a new site to offer hosting services and house the group’s IT
Have a data center that meets the requirements of the hosting business: a very high level of service continuity (TIER IV), scalability and flexibility (particularly in terms of capacity: space, power, cooling)
Achieve a high level of energy efficiency despite extreme outdoor conditions

Completed assignments

Training workshops on state-of-the-art data center design
Requirements definition, feasibility studies and drafting of the specifications
Development of preliminary designs
Owner’s engineer support: selection of technical solutions, calculation of the forecast PUE, support during the construction phase, testing, trials and acceptance
Definition of operating procedures for the IT rooms
Skills transfer to internal teams, enabling them to operate and maintain the data center in an industrial and sustainable manner
Support for Tier IV certification of the data center with the Uptime Institute

Client benefits

Comprehensive support, from defining requirements through to delivery of the data center
Design in line with international security and service continuity standards (Tier IV)
Modular site design to gradually accommodate increasing load
Eco-efficient data center: target PUE below 1.8 at 80% IT load, despite external temperatures that can sometimes exceed 45°C

Our solutions for

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

On the scale of major cloud operators, APL Data Center designs and deploys infrastructures built for performance, resilience and energy efficiency, to support the global rise of cloud and AI and to build the responsible data centers of tomorrow.

Colocation

Faced with the challenges of availability and proximity of digital services, APL Data Center supports hosting providers in creating modular, secure, and scalable data centers. Designed infrastructures meet the needs of distributed cloud and edge architectures.

Company

To support the digital transformation of organizations, APL Data Center designs and optimizes reliable, scalable, and sustainable data centers. These sovereign infrastructures meet the performance, security, and compliance requirements of businesses.

Public sector

Serving public sector actors, APL Data Center designs secure, compliant, and eco-efficient data centers that meet regulatory requirements and digital sovereignty challenges while guaranteeing service continuity.