Atos will provide a complete end-to-end solution for green data centers, designing and supplying the hardware, software, and integration services that enable the use of electricity produced by green hydrogen in data centers. This includes the use of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to optimize energy consumption. HDF Energy will supply a power plant that will provide predictable and reliable electricity thanks to its high-power fuel cells. These cells will be fueled by green hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.

A Major Technological Challenge:
Data centers have enormous energy needs, operate 24/7, and cannot afford even the slightest power outage. Therefore, the approach adopted by Atos and HDF is particularly ambitious, since, by its very nature, solar and wind energy are clean but intermittent, variable in production, and unpredictable, making them unstable energy sources.
At a time when data center energy consumption is becoming a critical issue and considering new energy models is essential, this new solution from Atos and HDF will allow data center and cloud operators to anticipate potential future limitations imposed by regulatory authorities and offer a sustainable yet reliable solution to their customers without compromising their business.

Combining expertise to reduce carbon footprint:
Atos' solution includes a software layer to predict the data center's energy consumption needs and adapt the resource (green hydrogen) accordingly. This complex process is based not only on the data center's activity and size but also on external environmental data, such as weather forecasts.

Atos contributes its HPC expertise, an area in which, as a European supercomputer manufacturer, it has several pioneering innovations that limit the energy consumption of its systems. Thanks to its expertise in high-power hydrogen technologies, HDF has developed a new type of power plant that is fully stable, non-polluting, and competitive compared to fossil fuel generators. Data center availability constraints will be incorporated into the Renewstable® design, enabling HDF to offer the highest level of service to the most demanding customers.

This initiative represents a significant new milestone in Atos' Net Zero 2028 decarbonization ambition. In 2020, Atos accelerated its data center decarbonization program with encouraging progress in energy efficiency, resulting in a 15% reduction in overall energy consumption across Atos data centers compared to 2019. Furthermore, carbon-free and renewable energy now powers 55% of all Atos data centers (up from 32% in 2019). Since 2014, Atos has also offered carbon-neutral hosting services to its customers, offsetting 100% of its data center emissions. Atos also recently signed the Data Center Climate Neutrality Pact, along with 35 other companies and associations across Europe, highlighting the industry's contribution to the European Green Deal.