NEWS
AT&T closes
sale of data
centre colocation
operations
and assets
T&T Inc announced that it has
completed the sale of its data
centre colocation operations and
assets to Brookfield Infrastructure and its
institutional partners (‘Brookfield’). The
company previously announced a strategic
alliance with Brookfield that included the
transfer of these operations and assets.
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Under Brookfield’s ownership, the
business will continue to deliver
colocation services to global customers.
The colocation data centre operations
serve a diversified customer base of
more than 1,000 companies across the
technology, financial, industrial, media
retail and other sectors worldwide.
Brookfield has established a wholly
owned company, Evoque Data Center
Solutions (‘Evoque’), to own and
operate the assets. Customer contracts,
employees supporting the colocation
operations, fixed assets, leases and
specified owned facilities have been
transferred to Brookfield.
Evoque joins AT&T’s global colocation
ecosystem programme where AT&T
will offer Evoque’s colocation services
to business customers. The ecosystem
programme offers business customers
access to 350+ data centres around
the world.
Under the terms of the deal, AT&T has
received US$1.1 billion, which will support
the company’s goal of reducing its net-
debt-to-EBITDA-ratio to the 2.5x range by
the end of 2019.
Atos opens its data centre in Clayes-sous-bois. From left: Jean-marie
Simon, Head of Atos en France; Jean-Michel Fourgous, President of the
Saint-Quentin,-en-Yvelines urban community; Pierre Bédier, Président
of the Yvelines County Council and Véronique Coté-Millard, Mayor of
Clayes-sous-Bois
Atos unveils modern and
energy-efficient data centre
in Yvelines
tos, a global leader in
Digital Transformation,
together with the Yvelines
departmental Council, has officially
inaugurated its new energy-efficient
global data centre in Les Clayes-
sous-Bois, in Yvelines.
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This modern optimised data centre
will house the most recent servers
and technologies to guarantee
Atos’ clients – who wish to locate
their data and applications on
French territory and in compliance
with European regulations –
optimal performance, storage
capacity, security, scalability
and cost-efficiency.
An eco-efficient data centre
The new data centre is energy-
efficient with a PUE (Power Usage
Effectiveness) of 1.2, a lot less than
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the global industry average of 2.0 and
30% more energy-efficient than the
previous data centre (1.7 PUE).
This is partly due to its hyper-efficient
cooling system, which minimises
water and power consumption. It
is certified in accordance with the
recognised ISO 14001 standard, which
requires companies to implement
comprehensive energy management
systems to continually improve
the eco-balance.
The new building’s infrastructure
(which regulates the power, the
temperature etc) uses only 20% of the
energy which is used by the servers.
The new data centre, which started
construction in 2017, is situated on
Atos’ existing R&D site and is the first
two in the series of eight modules
planned to be built from 2017 to 2020.
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