Data Center Campus

Data4: Marcoussis PAR01 Campus

Data4's PAR01 campus at Marcoussis, in the Paris-Saclay cluster southwest of Paris, sits on the former Alcatel research site and takes power straight from the RTE grid. First built in 2007, with expansions planned through 2027.

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Campus at a Glance

23 data centers on this campus
First built in 2007 with expansions through 2027
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Coordinates: 48.65019, 2.2256
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Data4's PAR01 campus is on Route de Nozay in Marcoussis (Essonne), in the Paris-Saclay technology cluster about 25 km southwest of Paris. Data4 markets it at 3 Route de Marcoussis, 91620 Nozay.

  • Land: two cadastral parcels (Marcoussis B 66 and B 83, about 104 ha). The data center zone covers about 26 ha. Data4 keeps about 70 ha of classified woodland, the "Grand Parc".
  • History: The Compagnie Générale d'Électricité opened a research center here in the late 1950s. The site passed to Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent. Data4, created in 2006 by Colony Capital with Alcatel, bought the site at the end of 2006 and redeveloped it from 2007. AXA IM Alts acquired Data4 in 2018 and Brookfield Infrastructure in 2023.
  • Growth: first-generation rounded halls around a central pond, the Alcatel-era D3 building, standardized single-storey halls from 2017, and larger halls in the western Zone 2 and Zone 2 Nord extensions. The prefecture authorized Zone 2 Nord in May 2024.
  • Power: two underground 90 kV lines from RTE's Villejust substation (400/225/90 kV) feed an on-site customer substation. RTE is building a new 225 kV substation ("Escargot") beside the campus next to Data4's E&F substation. The same node will feed Data4's PAR03 campus in Nozay through a 3.6 km double underground 225 kV line. At full build the site holds 151 backup generators (612 MW thermal input) and 87 buried fuel tanks; the fleet now runs on HVO.
  • Tenants: a major French bank (main customer in DC1), Amazon Web Services (on-site media destruction registered with the prefecture), and Cyllene. Data4 serves CAC 40 companies, IT service firms and large public and sovereign cloud platforms.
  • Sister campuses: PAR02 (the DUAL building, Rue Marin Angiboust, Marcoussis) and PAR03 (former Nokia site, Nozay).

Buildings

Sites on this Campus

Site Operator Status Operational Building Size Built
Data4: PAR01 D3 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC1 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC2 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC4 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC3 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC8 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC7 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC5 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC10 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC6 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC9 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC11 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC12 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC14 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC15 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC16 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC17 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC18 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC19 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC20 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC21 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC23 DATA4 Group
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Data4: PAR01 DC22 DATA4 Group
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Data4: Marcoussis PAR01 Campus Power Growth Over Time

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Developer

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Created in 2006 by Colony Capital, DATA4 is the European specialist in the construction and operation of ultra-secure data centers for French and international companies in the digital, manufacturing, service and banking and insurance sectors, who are seeking to outsource their data.

DATA4 manages flexible, high-performance and carrier- and cloud-neutral data centers, offering solutions from one colocation rack all the way through to purpose-built, dedicated facilities.

DATA4 Group operates data centers in France, Italy and Luxembourg, with a total net technical area of 22,000m² of IT rooms and more than 32 MW of IT power.

Company History:


2006: Creation of DATA4, joint venture between Alcatel, French telecommunications giant, and Colony Capital, international investment fund.

2007: The first client is hosted on the Paris campus

2009: The third building comes on line

2010: The fourth building comes on line

2011: The fifth building comes on line

2012: The sixth building comes on line and incorporates a high-density room.

2012: Acquisition of 3 data centers in Luxembourg, from Secure IT

2013: Creation of the Milan campus

2014: The first client from Milan is hosted

2015: A new executive committee is appointed to support the Group's growth targets.

2015: Second and third buildings in Milan comes on line

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