Worldline - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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EXTRA-FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF PERFORMANCE Reducing our environmental footprint [GRI 419-1]

Reduce our carbon footprint [GRI 302-1] [GRI 302-2] [GRI 302-3] [GRI 302-4] D.5.2.3 [GRI 302-5] [GRI 305-1] [GRI 305-2] [GRI 305-3] [GRI 305-4] Our energy efficiency program [GRI 302-4 Reduction of energy consumption] D.5.2.3.1 [GRI 305-5 Reduction of GHG emissions] EVOLUTION OF THE POWER USAGE EFFECTIVNESS OF OUR DATA CENTERS (PUE)

Optimize the hundreds of lighting in rooms and technical ● areas with LEDs. Optimizing the use of its resources to save energy: ● Increase the data center room temperatures to the ● maximum levels compliant with the operating standards of servers; Use an additional adiabatic system in the peak periods of ● temperature to help the air conditioning systems; Organize rooms alternately in cold aisles and hot aisles ● and, with the containment of cold aisles when possible, using the Free Cooling technique in Vendome and new Magnetic Bearing Chillers in Dassault that replaced in 2019 the use of the Free Chilling technique and that improve energy efficiency as well as allow the use of less polluting gas. In parallel, Worldline has purchased the Dassault data center components according to the ramp up of the site. The Dassault data center is the latest built in 2008-2009 and initially aimed to a PUE of 1.6, which is a good performance for a ten-year-old data center. In 2019, due to the upgrade of new chillers of higher energy efficiency, this data center reached a PUE of 1.5. Monitoring and checking the energy-effectiveness of its ● infrastructures: Conduct every 4 years since 2015 an energy audit, as well ● as an ISO 14001 audit on an annual basis, to regularly challenge and improve the data center infrastructure and techniques used in order to ensure continuous energy efficiency and PUE improvement, Use an infrastructure management solution (DCIM) for ● very precise, real-time monitoring of energy consumption and monitoring on a monthly basis the PUE. All these different measures (adoption of cloud solutions, virtualization, increased use of energy-efficient hardware and other optimization measures) allow Worldline to continue to improve the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its five strategic data centers from a current average 1.67 in 2019, to an objective of 1.65 achieved in 2020 [GRI 302-5]. The PUE is the total energy consumed by the data center divided by the energy consumed by IT equipment. In addition to PUE enhancement, all the data centers at La Pointe, Dassault, Vendome, Brussels and the technical room in Frankfurt are ISO 14001 certified. This certification also provides new levers on IT waste reduction, especially on the server recycling process. The business activity on Worldline’s non-strategic data centers is marginal and the Company aims to consolidate all its operational activities on its five strategic data centers in the coming years.

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Data centers Power Usage Effectiveness Since 2013, Worldline has managed its five data centers in three different countries with a dedicated energy efficiency program. Over the years, many actions and best practices have been implemented in Worldline data centers such as cooling systems that use closed water circuits or the implementation of adiabatic cooling that avoids the sizing of the infrastructure for the hot peak days, allowing making substantial gains in energy savings. In this regard, Worldline is committed to follow the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres framework that was launched in 2008 and that aims at setting ambitious energy-efficiency standards for data centers. Besides, the Company strives to rationalize as much as possible its data centers locations to optimize infrastructure efficiency. Worldline’s data center energy efficiency program articulates around three pillars: Selecting the most energy-efficient servers and ● components: Carefully choose products used in its data centers (such ● as Transformers, UPS, cooling units, for the infrastructure, but also servers, disks, routers) with the highest environmental and energy-efficiency standards at the time of purchase and constantly optimizing the existing systems; Leverage technologies like the server virtualization in all ● its data centers to reduce the number of physical servers (systematically implemented since 2009), resulting in less transport of hardware, less waste and packaging, and reduced need to enlarge or build new datacenters;

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