Found a PDF from a company planning a datacenter project, with other datacenters location 🕵️
Found this PDF from NDC, explaining their project to build a new datacenter in Velizy-Villacoublay, in Ile-de-France region, in France.
In addition to the data regarding the project itself, page 6 shows a map of the city with approximative location of other datacenters.
8 datacenters are referenced in addition to the project from NDC.
First let’s look at how many datacenters we have in the database, with the city code of Vélizy-Villacoublay : 78140
./dcwatch.py sql "select id, name, address, city_name, city_code, total_floor_area_sqm, power_total_mw, progress_step_id from datacenters where city_code=78140"
┌───────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬───┬──────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ id │ name │ address │ city_name │ … │ total_floor_area_sqm │ power_total_mw │ progress_step_id │
│ int32 │ varchar │ varchar │ varchar │ │ decimal(18,3) │ decimal(18,3) │ int32 │
├───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼───┼──────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ 12 │ Fiducial (ex KHEOP… │ 45 avenue de l\,eu… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 1005.000 │ 2.000 │ 1 │
│ 13 │ DataBank FR3 / GDC3 │ 16 avenue de l’Eur… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 4440.000 │ 7.000 │ 1 │
│ 95 │ dc2scale Vélizy │ 16- rue Grange Dam… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 10560.000 │ 0.300 │ 1 │
│ 118 │ Cogent Data Center… │ 16 Rue Grande Dame… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 1200.000 │ 0.400 │ 1 │
│ 137 │ ETIX_EVERYWHERE PAR3 │ 14-16 Av. de l\,Eu… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 3400.000 │ 3.800 │ 1 │
│ 535 │ NDC Velizy │ 10 Av. Morane Saul… │ VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY │ … │ 7461.000 │ 20.000 │ 2 │
├───────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴───┴──────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────┤
│ 6 rows 8 columns (7 shown) │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We have 5 operating datacenters referenced and the NDC project. We might then miss 3 operating datacenters yet.
- Cogent: could be ID 118 ✅
- DC2 Scale: could be ID 95 ✅
- SFR: seem to lack in dcwatch ❌
- Equinix: ❌
- Orange: ❌
- Etix Everywhere: could be ID 137 ✅
- Confidential Hyperscaler: ❌
- Microsoft: ❌
- NDC project: ✅
It’s not entirely clear up to this point, there might be errors both in the document and in dcwatch, but at least we know there is a clear mismatch. Let’s start with the obvious, the lacking ones, to see if we get any information.
Orange datacenter
Datacenters could be simply and explicitely referenced in Google Maps. This is the case for this one, type Datacenter Orange Velizy and you’ll find it on Google Maps
Looking at the adress, this datacenter is actually at the border between Velizy and the neighbor city Meudon. The real address is in Meudon. So let’s check if we have it in the database:
./dcwatch.py sql "select id, name, address, city_name, city_code, total_floor_area_sqm, IT_floor_area_sqm, power_total_mw, progress_step_id from datacenters where city_code=92190"
┌───────┬────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ id │ name │ address │ city_name │ city_code │ total_floor_area_sqm │ IT_floor_area_sqm │ power_total_mw │ progress_step_id │
│ int32 │ varchar │ varchar │ varchar │ varchar │ decimal(18,3) │ decimal(18,3) │ decimal(18,3) │ int32 │
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ 14 │ Orange Business Services │ 22 Avenue du Maréchal Juin- 92360 Meudon │ MEUDON │ 92190 │ 11870.000 │ 5935.000 │ 17.570 │ 1 │
│ 15 │ Equinix PA13 │ 9 Avenue du Maréchal Juin- 92360 Meudon │ MEUDON │ 92190 │ 20475.000 │ 10237.500 │ 28.000 │ 1 │
│ 345 │ Equinix PA15 (extension de PA13 en p… │ 9 Avenue du Maréchal Juin- 92360 Meudon │ MEUDON │ 92190 │ NULL │ NULL │ 20.000 │ 2 │
└───────┴────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴──────────────────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────┘
ID 14 seems to be the datacenter we look for. Number 22 in the street leads to the same place.
It seems there is an Equinix datacenter in this street as well that could have been visually mapped in Vélizy in the document but seem to be in Meudon.
- Cogent: could be ID 118 ✅
- DC2 Scale: could be ID 95 ✅
- SFR: seem to lack in dcwatch ❌
- Equinix: probably ✅ need to check ⏳
- Orange: ✅
- Etix Everywhere: could be ID 137 ✅
- Confidential Hyperscaler: ❌
- Microsoft: ❌
- NDC project: ✅