IKOULA Housing

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How much space is there in the IKOULA Data Centres?

IKOULA owns its own Data Centres which host over 8,000 servers across the municipalities of Reims and Eppes (Hauts-de-France). A pioneer in green hosting, with over 25,000 clients, IKOULA places innovation, simplicity, and client satisfaction at the heart of its solutions. We are also present in two well-known Data Centres in France, Equinix Courbevoie (92) and TeleHouse 2 in Paris.

Technical characteristics:	Reims	Eppes
Total Data Centre surface area	1,750 m²	800 m²
Maximum hosting capacity in the Data Centre	1,150 m²	300 m²
Data Centre production space	550 m²	200 m²

Description of the main Data Centre in Reims

All of the rooms in the Data Centre have their own network and power supply.

1. Ground floor room
2. Surface: 300 m²
• Ceiling height 4.5 m, capacity for 55 bays
• The room is divided into 2 sections:
  • Room 3 is a 150 m² production space
  • Room 4 is 150 m² for future development
3. Room 5 on the 1st floor (future extension of 100 m²)
• Surface: 150 m²
• Uniform load bearing capacity of the floor slabs of 720 kg/m²
• Flooring raised by 500 mm
• Every actuator is connected to the ground via a metal braid
• Ceiling height of 3 m
4. Clean room on the 2nd floor
• Surface: 250 m²
• Uniform load bearing capacity of the floor slabs of 720 kg/m²
• Flooring raised by 500 mm
• Every actuator is connected to the ground via a metal braid
• Ceiling height of 3 m
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5. Data Centre Power Supply
• Double induction interconnection via an EDF loop
• Site upgradable to 3,000 kVA @N+1
• 2 HT transformers 630 kVA
• 500 kVA electricity generating sets for the ground floor room and 1,000 kVA generating sets for the other floors
• Refuelling contracted guaranteed within 4 hours in the SLA
• General Low Voltage Boards: 1,000 A
• Electrical circuits with N+1 redundancy with a 600 kVA bypass
• Inverter self-sufficiency: 20 minutes at full charge
• 1 General Low Voltage Board for each of the rooms aided by 1 generator
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6. Data Centre air conditioning
• Air conditioning system under close control uniformly distributed under false floors to ensure the stability of the temperature and humidity @ N+1
• Temperature 22°C +/- 4°C
• Humidity level 50% +/- 15%
• Air-conditioned inverter rooms
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7. IKOULA Data Centre Fire & Flood safety
• Fire detection system via particle analysis (VESDA)
• Isolation of the electrical area in the case that a fire is detected
• Isolation of the area in the case that a fire is detected
• Fire extinguishing system using FM 200 or neutral gas
• Isolated inverter rooms equipped with VESDA/FM200
• Section-based water detection system
• Building in a non-flood zone
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8. IKOULA Data Centre Physical Security
• Internal and external video surveillance system across the entire building
• Continuous video recording 24/24
• Retention period for video recordings: at least 1 month
• Building fully equipped with alarms
• Access to the hosting platform solely following double visual validation and an badge-activated access control system
• Automatic entrance gate with anti-intrusion barrier
• Single-staff secure gate (provides biometrics)
• On-site presence 24/7
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