FRANCEFOR DATACENTERS

France offers the best economic and environmental advantages to build and operate your Datacenter

CONTENTS

Executive summary p. 3

1. Energy : the best quality for the lowest price in Europe p. 71.1 Electrical energy: the key issue for datacenters p. 51.2 Power Quality: another French asset p. 5

2. Telecom Network: high quality, ubiquitous high bandwidth telecoms and business opportunities p. 112.1 General context p. 112.2 What future developments can be expected? p. 112.3 What is the relative importance of telecom in the development strategy of datacenters? p. 112.4 France’s advantages in terms of telecommunication networks p. 12

3. Worldwide leaders on building, engineering and financing p. 193.1 The strengths of France in terms of construction p. 193.2 State of the art - Dynamic and comprehensive p. 20

4. Skills and best practices p. 234.1 Design, project and management conception p. 234.2 Operating capabilities, operation and maintenance p. 25

5. Risk assessment & Management p. 27

“France for Datacenters” Workshop contributors

Paul-François CATTIER APC by Schneider Electric Murielle COMBES APC by Schneider Electric Jacques PERROCHAT APC by Schneider Electric Gérard du BESSET APL FRANCE Sébastien ORIFICI AREVA T&D Julien PALENGAT BREZILLON Ahcène LATRECHE BULL Nicolas ZERBIB CORNING Roger DURAND COTEBA Michel GROSBOST CRIP Luc PHILIPPE EDF Alain LE CALVÉ GIMELEC André ROUYER GIMELEC Pierre BISCARAT INEO Didier GALINDO NEXANS Eric STERN ORANGE Dominique ROCHE ORANGE Xavier MANCEAU SDMO Serge SINAPI STULZ Serge BRION VINCI ENERGIES

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Deciding where to locate your future Datacenter is the first strategic decision for any company seeking to optimize the value of its investment and secure its asset on a long term basis.

This is a strategic equation that needs a careful due diligence process to assess critical factors. Among them are political stability, security, competitive and growing market, international laws and compliance, and many other key benefits such as cost, engineering capabilities, availability and quality of power, fibre connectivity, tax incentives...

FRANCE provides significant guarantees and advantages to ensure successful strategic investments.

Five key competitive factors make France a strategic choice for Datacenter investors:

1/ Electricity prices are by far the lowest in Europe and are guaranteed on the long term thanks to France’s strategic energy policy.

Example of electricity costs for datacenters: (paid by members of the CRIP*)

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* CRIP: Club des Responsables d’Infrastructures et de Production (includes some thirty members, legal persons from the Datacenters world).

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2/ Ubiquitous high bandwidth telecom services offered at the most competitive price, both for local and long-distance services.

3/ France is the place where your carbon footprint will be the lowest in Europe. The Electricity Emission factor, as defined by the International Energy Agency Data Services, 2006, listed France with only 87g per kWh, compared to an average for Europe of 460g (TBC), or to Ireland with 573g/kWh or 467g/kWh for the UK.

4/ State-of-the art engineering skills guarantees high-level services during design, construction phase and for operating even the most complex datacenters.

5/ French regulations promotes a “Digital Economy Policy” and grant barrier-free entry and legal protections to investors.

This document highlights the key arguments for locating a datacenter in France.

Ubiquitous high bandwidth

Energy cost and reliability

Skills & best practices

Worldwide leaders on Building, Engineering and Financing

Low barrier regulation

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1.1 Electrical energy: the key issue for datacenters

Whether managing, reconfiguring, operating, or implementing a new datacenter, energy is the key issue.

The increase in electrical power required to operate computer equipment (servers, blade servers, and mainframes), energy-effi-cient cooling, and associated equipment has weighed more heavily in the energy costs in recent years. Energy is becoming an “opera-tional cost” in some cases even exceeding equipment depreciation costs.

For a foreign investor, the choice of location of a datacenter is strategic. France is highly competitive in terms of energy (see map).

Competitive electricity prices…

The organization of the electricity sector, the structure of generating facilities in France and the technologies used (nuclear power plants) offer competitive prices to its European customers, including industrial and service companies. The comparison drawn by the Energy Observatory in January 2007 illustrates these facts by comparing the electricity price for industrial use including transportation and distribution (excluding VAT and all taxes). Among the countries of the EU 15, France, and Finland, are the countries whose electricity is

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least expensive (54 €/MWh), well ahead of Germany (92.7 €/ MWh), Ireland, Italy and Belgium (83.4 €/ MWh).

…independent of the changes in the price of fossil resources and supplies…

The nature of electricity generation in France - 80% nuclear - makes electricity somewhat independent of price changes for fossil resources. This is a guarantee of price stability in France in an environment in which energy prices in Europe are very volatile and dependent on supply, safety and pressure from investors.

... and electricity production emits less CO2

95% of electricity from the French utility company EDF is free of CO2 emissions through nuclear power and hydropower. EDF emits an average of 8 times less CO2 than the European fleet: 42.5 CO2/KWh (IEA source).

1.2 Power Quality: another French asset Datacenters are very sensitive to power quality and cannot operate with interruptions of current or voltage dips (short interruption, long outage, etc.), which explains why datacenters power supplies are redundant – i.e. doubled for safety – and facilities are secured by uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) against short interruptions (less than 3 minutes) and generators in case of long outages (over 3 minutes).

The quality of electricity supply is judged by the continuity of supply (no short interruptions or long outages) and the characteristics of the supply voltage (voltage fluctuations such as voltage dips that can affect the proper operation of equipment).

Evolution of power quality in Europe

Unplanned interruption excluding exceptional events: minutes lost per year

Unplanned interruption excluding exceptional events: number of interruptions per year

The voltage level (LV, MV, HV) is related to where the incidents occur. The French values in the figure are lower than the reality

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Number of power interruptions (long cuts > � minutes per low voltage customer and duration in minutes) in Europe and United States

Reference: EPRI Solutions (CIRED 2005 conference)

SAIFI: System Average Interruption Frequency IndexSAIDI: System Average Interruption Duration Index

SAIFI (number of interruptions)

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Finland 4.1 2.3 183 109

France 1.2 1.2 53 45

UK 0.8 NA 70 NA

Italy 3.8 3.4 203 160

Ireland 1.3 NA 236 81

Netherlands 0.5 0.6 29 33

Norway 2.7 NA 218 NA

Portugal 7.5 NA 531 413

Spain 3.3 2.9 179 139

United States 1.1 1.1 214 107

This quality depends on: • the performance of public power

distribution network,

• how electricity is used by the client; some equipment may impair the quality of voltage, such as the start of large motors that can lead to voltage dips or the presence of electronic equipment which may impair the quality of the voltage waveform.

In average, the total interruption duration for a low voltage customer is one hour per year. This duration has decreased by a factor of 6 in 20 years. In this respect, France is in the forefront in Europe (see figures on p.8).For medium voltage customers in France (from 20,000 V), the total downtime is even less than this value. In the U.S., downtime is higher with a value close to two hours per year (see following table).

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High quality, ubiquitous high bandwidth telecoms and business opportunities

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2.1 General context

A major characteristic of datacenters is their need for communication, via networks, with other datacenters and with the “rest of the world”.

Therefore, such facilities are dependent on highly efficient telecommunications infrastructures. Datacenters requires multiple access points and the existing networks must be able to provide high bandwidth and to guarantee the availability and quality of service.

2.2 What future developments can be expected?

Several structural evolutions in the future will lead to increased geographical dispersion of the physical components of the telecom infrastructure. This is due to the:

• growth and diversification of points of access to information,

• arrival of more powerful, more flexible servers closer to the customers,

• growth of services within the network (storage, virtualisation, calculation, etc.)

Finally, the new services related to grid and cloud computing require strengthened security, increased interoperability, and physical locations as close as possible to the

end users to guarantee the interactivity of these services.

What is the impact of openness toward telecom infrastructure?

Electronic exchanges with customers (B2C), suppliers and partners (B2B), and between machines (M2M) impose new demands in terms of connectivity, availability, security and absorption of random loads. The infrastructure must be flexible and adaptable enough to guarantee maximum quality of service at all times.

This requires that datacenters be connected to a telecommunication infrastructure that can meet these constraints both in terms of quality and geographical coverage to ensure several pathways for routing data in case of access point failure or traffic overload.

2.� What is the relative importance of telecom in the development strategy of datacenters?

The following figures are taken from the CRIP White Paper on Datacenters (http://www.crip-asso.fr/). With 2�%, Telecom is a decisive factor in the choice of location of a Datacenter (see graph next page).

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2.� France advantages in terms of telecommunication networks

2.�.1 Coverage of networks

France is a critical European hub for data communication infrastructure networks. The country is served by transatlantic long dis-tance fibre connection links such as shown in the COGENT international infrastructure below (source COGENT), which, in this case, connects directly into the Paris area high bandwidth capabilities.

France has a telecommunications infra-structure that is particularly efficient and competitive. The coverage of the entire territory provides the possibility of having several data routing paths at most points in the network, reducing the impact of a local/regional network breakdown.

France’s incumbent long standing opera-tor (France Telecom/Orange) stands out in

Source CRIP White Paper – Datacenters – May 2009

Concerns of Datacenter owners

Telecoms

Access to Vendors, Manufacturers, and Publishers

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Absence of natural risks and loss events

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North America IP Capacity: 80 GbpsTransatlantic IP Capacity: 4 x 10 Gbps PathsEuropean IP Capacity: 40 Gbps

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Europe for the quality of its network and its level of coverage. It provides network backbones as well as local access points and offers connection potential able to meet datacenters telecom requirements. Since 1996, alternative service providers have appeared. They also offer optical in-frastructures covering the entire country. They have joined with major infrastructure networks (electrical, railway, waterway, mo-torway, etc.) to deploy more than 86,000 km of optical networks, thus providing competi-tive quality services in Paris and most large French cities.

Moreover, France has many public-initiative networks which have been deployed since 1999 throughout various regions of the country. These networks reinforce the com-petitive coverage in France, providing fibre-optic access to more than 2,600 business parks where datacenters can be installed.

Coverage of incumbent operator’s fibre network

Source France Telecom

2.�.� Competition of networks in large cities

The connection of a datacenter to several operators secures the availability of service in case one of the networks breaks down. The number of operators who have their own infrastructure in a given territory is therefore a major factor of competitiveness.

In France, the incumbent operator is present in all urban areas, and several alternative operators are present in most big cities, as illustrated by the table below.

2.�.� Competitive TELECOM rates

In addition to the technical aspects and the quality of the service provided, the cost aspect is a decisive for choosing a datacenter location. The cost/quality ratio makes France a world leader in particular due to a highly competitive local market.

City France Telecom Network

Alternative networks

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Source: TACTIS, www.Data Centermap.com

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The graph below is taken from an internal study made by a major corporation in France. It compares telecommunication costs in several European countries (with baseline 100 corresponding to the Paris region).

The next graph, from the same source, shows telecoms costs compared to the annual cost of a datacenter (amortization & operation). For telecoms, the base used is a 2 x 4 Gbps link between the Paris region and the country in question. Again we see clearly that France is highly competitive.

According to this data, the relative share of telecoms in the total cost of a datacenter in France is only 28%, which is lower by comparison to all other countries (from 35 to 91%).

2.�.� Opportunities related to the internal telecommunications market

France’s high-performance telecommunica-tions infrastructures create an opportunity for locating datacenters. The high rate of penetration of broadband in France (19 mil-

Comparison of telecommunications costs in several European countries

Source: French company affiliated with CRIP

Telecoms costs compared to the annual cost of a datacenter (amortization & operation)

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Datacenter Telecoms Total Datacenter Telecoms Total

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China 67 - - 83 - -

India 76 487 563 95 414 509

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France Telecom coverage and Local loop unbundling (LLU) - October 200�

Source: Tactis www.tactis.fr

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DSL 98,75% 98,94%

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lion subscriptions, of which nine million are for unbundled ADSL access), and more gener-ally triple-play offerings (85% of all lines are eligible for 3 Mbps), has created a dynamic internal market for suppliers of content.

Today France is one of the major Video-On-Demand markets in the world (80 Million € in 2009), and this market will be worth 500 Mil-lion € per year in 2012. In Europe, this mar-ket currently amounts to 700 Million € and will be worth 2.4 Billion € in 2012.

Consumption of streaming video is also more developed in France than in the United States, with 79% of French Internet users using it.

The density of datacenter network throughout France makes it possible to offer a high quality of service to consumers, and in particular to those requiring low latency times and high data rates. Distribution of audiovisual content (Video-On-Demand, YouTube, etc.) and online applications (cloud computing), for example, would greatly benefit from the multiplication of datacenters.

The internal market will also be boosted by the massive mid-term deployment of FTTH

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networks in France, in particular thanks to public-initiative projects like the one in the Paris area Hauts-de-Seine department (800,000 connections), which will be accelerated by the contribution of the French government investment plan (2 Billion € devoted to VHB infrastructures in addition to 2 Billion € dedicated to digital content).

Locating a datacenter in France, with its strategic position in the heart of Europe and its telecom networks, will make it possible to reach a significant percentage of a high-potential market for network-hosted services and content. According to Cisco, each month 466 PB of data related to video streams pass through the networks. Increasing the number of datacenters would limit congestion in the

network core and increase the quality of service to users.

2.�.� Availability and quality of the network

France is recognised as one of the countries where the quality and availability of the telecom network are among the best in the world.

Furthermore, the diversity of the networks existing in France and their direct interconnection with the principal points of exchange of world traffic result in the availability of a large bandwidth capacity and short latency periods.

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�.1 The strengths of France in terms of construction

�.1.1 High education level in engineering and construction

France is historically well-structured to provide the best capabilities related to engineering and construction.

France provides a large number of highly specialized schools in civil and structural engineering, in electrical and mechanical engineering, as well as in construction management.

The construction sector directly employs about 1,550,000 people and is a leading pro-fessional branch in France.

It is noteworthy that the biggest construction companies worldwide are French and that France also has many world leaders (Source: Fortune Global 500) in the areas of construction materials: concrete, glass, electrical equipment, water treatment...

Large construction companies in France guarantee investors high-quality construction and timely execution.

�.1.2 Construction standards and regulations

The construction sector in France is one of the most regulated and standardized in the world.

The French Construction Code provides a transparent framework for the construction sector. Technical standards and mandatory audits & surveys by certified third-parties guarantees solidity and safety and a legally binding 10-years guarantee on all new constructions limits the risks for foreign investors.

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�.1.� Construction methods for Datacenters

France promotes durable construction methods, including concrete. This has several advantages:• Reinforced concrete is a material that

has very good fire stability and natural protection capabilities.

• Precast concrete shorten construction times.

The combination of specific construction methods and skills, with high production capacities allows high-quality constructions to be completed in a short period of time (typically 10 months construction).

�.1.� Construction costs for Datacenters in France

Construction cost of datacenter depends on several factors:

• Expected service level (Tiering grade by Uptime Institute)

• Power ratio

• Associated areas and technical premises (ie: offices, common services)

Various studies show that construction costs in France are generally lower than in other EU countries hosting datacenters (United Kingdom, Netherlands ...) in terms of invest-ment / development land / power / Tiering, with an approximate 15% benefit compared to UK and 10% benefit compared to the Netherlands.

�.2 State of the art - Dynamic and comprehensive

The French commercial real estate market is very well structured and legally secure for lo-cal and foreign investors:

• Freehold property only, with involvement of Notaries in all transactions means trans-parency.

• High protection of the landlord and his property means security of investment.

• Secured cash flow through legalized lease contracts and clear responsibilities of the landlord and the tenant means security of return on investment.

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Depending on the requirements of the pri-vate investor, various types of investment vehicles are available with different charac-teristics regarding:

• Tax optimization

• Liquidity of the asset

• Number of partners

Investment vehicles for a Datacenter in France:

• Direct ownership (possibly through a Special Purpose Vehicle, a French Joint Stock Company such as “SA” or “SAS”)

• Private real estate vehicles such as an OPCI (similar to US REITs) or a SCPI (investment company floated on a specific market)

Financing options available on the French Market

The French banking system has a large ap-petite for real estate projects. Moreover, all international banks operate in France.

In the special case of investment in a datacenter project, all classic financing options are available:

• Corporate financing

• Project financing

• Leasing

• Mortgage

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�.1 Design, project and management conception

Specialized French designers and consul-tancy companies can help investors assess their Datacenter projects in a worldwide competitive market. French companies can collaborate in a multidisciplinary and mul-tinational team to offer adequate services throughout the implementation of data-center projects. French professionals apply best international practices for reliability and efficiency.

French Consulting and Contractors Compa-nies collaborate to design and build cutting-edge datacenters, satisfying investor’s major requirements:

• High availability of physical infrastructure for critical IT operations

• Zero operation downtime

• High power efficiency by introducing energy optimization at the earliest phases of design and construction

• Cost-effective investments through life-cycle-cost analysis

• Thorough commissioning for quality assurance

Consulting Services

A Datacenter project starts with determining

investors’ objectives and availability require-ments. Qualified and experienced French companies offer a broad range of consulting services to carry out the pre-design, budget and general planning of datacenter projects:

• Feasibility studies

• Cost budgeting

• Infrastructure availability

• Technical systems analysis

• Risk assessment

• Continuity and recovery requirements

• Site selection

• Master plan

• Project Planning

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Design & Engineering Services (For traditional ‘‘design – specify – bid – build’’ solution)

Specialized French companies are currently involved in the renovation and upgrading of existing datacenters as well as the design of new facilities. They offer comprehensive architectural and technical services to develop datacenter design in accordance with the needs and programs of the investors.

They manage datacenter projects during the design, engineering and execution phases:

• Survey of existing systems and facilities

• Architectural design

• Structural design

• Electrical design

• Mechanical design

• Fire protection

• Security systems

• Cabling systems

• IT systems

• Etc.

Design and Engineering services can cover all aspects of design:

• Comprehensive design services for up-grading and renovating existing facilities

• Green datacenter

• Maximizing free cooling and facility efficiency with dynamic simulation

• Improving datacenter power efficiency (PUE)

• Schematic design

• Design development

• Equipment and facilities specifications

• Procurement and bid evaluation

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Project Management and Construction Management (PM/CM)

French specialized consulting firms and contractors offer all capabilities and experience for Project Management (PM) and Construction Management (CM) in accordance with international standards.

PM/CM services optimize the implementation of complex datacenter projects, reduce capital spending, delivering the project on-time and within the budget according to the investor’s scope:

• Design management, involving multidisciplinary project team

• Management and coordination of contractors

• Coordination of equipment delivery

• Equipment installation

• Full scale testing and commissioning

Construction

No matter what solution investors choose for the construction of their datacenter - the traditional “design – specify – bid – build” solution or the “design and build” solution, various French contractors provide specialized expertise and experience with separate trades or packages or general contractor for complex datacenters :

• Detail specification and shop drawings

• Procurement

• Equipment supply and rigging

• Equipment installation

• Datacenters commissioning

• General contracting

• Construction management

• Turn key construction

�.2 Operation and maintenance

French companies offer monitoring and con-trol for operation and maintenance services in order to ensure reliable operation of the critical systems installed:

• Infrastructure Management & Control

• Performance Management

• Site monitoring and control

• Preventive maintenance services

• 24/7 emergency services

• Corrective maintenance services

These companies provide management staff and field technicians for all types of equipment and trades. They offer a wide range of services including specific preventive, 24/7 emergency and corrective services for supply of critical equipment:

• HVAC and mechanical

• Fire protection

• Electrical equipment, UPS & batteries, generators, ATS

• Communication and cabling

• IT equipment

• Security and access control

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France is one of the EU leaders in data pro-tection and fully complies with the most stringent Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) standards.

Datacenters, part of the “New Economy”, protect and provide the technical elements necessary to deliver computing and telecom services and are critical assets for companies’ operations. Such facilities need to meet the highest standards.

Therefore identifying and preventing risks are of prime importance; risks can be sorted and classified in 3 main categories:

• Natural risks such as climate disorders (storms, droughts, blizzards, etc.), geological accidents (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis...), or hydraulic (flooding, avalanches...)

• Risks of human origin: sabotage, terrorism, mistake, poor understanding of operational instructions

• Technical risks : related to any threat generated by equipment breakdown or failure, obsolete equipment, etc

France has set up a specific organization and corresponding procedures and regula-tions to cope with such risks, in particular with regard to security and safety.

The French Agency DRIRE (Direction Ré-gionale de l’Industrie, de la Recherche et de l’Environnement) is a public organiza-tion delivering permit for safe operation of industrial premises.

Datacenter installations and equipment have to comply with regulations related to stocking inflammable liquids, accumulator’s battery, cooling refrigerant, etc… through a “ICPE” permit file application (ICPE Installations Classées pour la Protection de l’Environnement).

Risk assessment & Management

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This application includes different aspects:

• Neighbourhood

• Health

• Safety

• Protection of the nature and the environment

• Conservation of sites and monuments

Sustainable development is key in all construction projects thanks to the French government’s strong commitment and involvement in terms of protection of the environment. France is at the leading edge of these works and has many experts working in various technical committees related to this matter. This includes works with standardization bodies at the French level with AFNOR or UTE, at the European level such as CEN or CENELEC or at the international level with the IEC, ISO or ITU.

As a result, France provides a set of regula-tions in compliance with European directives and best international standards.

French manufacturers and contractors fully comply with such requirements (such as Product Environment Profiles (PEP), WEEE, and RoHS, calculation of Life Cycle Assess-ments-LCA).

For Datacenters, the complete life cycle from design to recycling has to be taken into con-sideration given the rising global concern for the environment and the use of natural resources, including emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In the wake of this growing awareness and important measures that will follow, the Carbon Footprint of a datacenter throughout its entire life-cycle must be considered such as main following aspects:

• Materials

• Design and construction

• Equipment manufacturing

• Transportation / installation

• Operation and consumption

EU WEEE standard: Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment, which implies the complete selective treatment and recycling of products

EU RoHS standard: Restriction of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment which concerns lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chro-mium (Cr6+), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), with maximum permitted concen-trations of 0.1% by weight of homoge-neous material.

EU REACH standard: Registration Evalua-tion and Authorisation of Chemicals.

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• Maintenance

• Disposal, with recycling

Therefore, all manufacturers commit them-selves to providing carbon assessments for products embedded in datacenters and re-duce carbon footprint in the manufacturing process.

In datacenters, electrical energy is the base of operations. In this context, relevant in-formation is regularly released to implement best operating behaviors and practices for energy saving.

French stakeholders have been involved in the drafting of the European Code of Conduct

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on Energy Efficiency for Datacenters with qualified representatives participating in the working groups.

Such a “voluntary scheme” will provide a platform for bringing together European stakeholders to define and implement voluntary actions toward energy efficiency. They are invited to enforce appropriate measures to control and monitor Health & Safety procedures, as a vital part of Datacenter Management.

Participants are invited to continuously monitor energy consumption and adopt energy saving management to improve energy efficiency. The Code of Conduct will use the metrics recommended by the Green Grid, referring to two related metrics recently introduced in the Industry: “Power Usage Effectiveness” (PUE) and “Datacenter Infrastructure Efficiency” (DCIE).

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FRANCE: GENUINE ATTRACTIVENESSA Datacenter is a complex systemand such complex facilities need to be located in an adapted environment. Taking these criteria together, France’s attractiveness emerges very positive:

• Highly reliable electric network• Stable, competitive and low electrical energy rates • Electrical energy produced with low carbon footprint• Reliable telecom infrastructure and open to competition• Broadly deployed fibre-optic infrastructure, connected directly to countries which are

major players in the digital economy• Low per-m2 real-estate rates• A geostrategic position at the crossroads of Europe• Highly educated staff to design, build and operate datacenter• Credibility in terms of sustainable development

The sum of all these advantages makes France a very competitive location for Datacenters.

WELCOME TO yOUR DATACENTER IN FRANCE

The “France for Datacenters” Club is hosted by:

Gimélec - French industry association for electrical equipment, automation and related services 11-17 rue de l’Amiral Hamelin F-75783 Paris cedex 16

Contact: tel. ++ 33 1 45 05 70 77 www.francefordatacenters.fr

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