Event reserved for Capenergies members
For further information and to register, please contact : Valentina VOLOGNI - valentina.vologni@capenergies.fr
📍 Lecture: Pôle Alpha – Alpha Sophia Antipolis, Rue Pierre Laffitte, 06410 Biot
📍 Tour: nLighten Data Centre, 49 Rue Émile Hugues, 06600 Antibes
COME AND SHARE IDEAS, INNOVATE AND TAKE ACTION!
A day to share your experiences, discover the innovations that are transforming the sector, and work together to develop strategies for reconciling digital growth, security of supply and the energy transition.
Energy efficiency, control systems, cooling, water management : Data centres must reinvent their business model to remain efficient without compromising resources or the network.
This event sets out concrete, technical and organisational solutions for combining resilience, sustainability and impact management.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
🔍 Plan ahead: Identify the energy, environmental and regulatory challenges that are reshaping the data centre sector.
💡 Taking practical action: Discover practical solutions: energy efficiency, maintenance, cooling, water management and infrastructure optimisation.
🤝 Creating opportunities: Meet local stakeholders, identify areas of complementarity and foster new collaborations.
PROGRAMME
9h30 :
Home
10.00:
Introduction by Capenergies: industry news, opportunities and funding Presentation of projects and solutions
- Bruno LAFITTE, ADEME – Current situation and future outlook for data centres in France
- Boris BERTHIER,Veolia – Senior Project Developer, Energy Data Centres: from constraint to regional asset – Accelerating projects, maximising local benefits
- Romain BEAUME, Watt & Well – Solid-state transformers and DC power distribution in data centres
- Prof. Raphael TRONCY, EURECOM – Optimisation of energy networks, low-power AI, the CIRCALIS computing centre
12h :
Networking lunch
13h30 :
Round-table discussion: Data centres: how can we balance performance, resilience and the energy transition?
- nLighten
- Julien CHOUKROUN, co-founder and Head of R&D, DataGreen
14h30 :
Travel arrangements for the visit
15h :
3.00 pm: Tour of the nLighten Data Centre in Antibes
A technical tour of an exemplary site: the nLighten data centre in Antibes won the French Energy-Saving Championship in 2025.
⏰ Full programme coming soon
For further information, please contact :
Valentina VOLOGNI
Project Engineer & Regional Representative for Corsica
Energy systems, Digital, Buildings - CONCERTO RENOV
valentina.vologni@capenergies.fr
+33 6 07 66 77 00
Capenergies Office, c/o IMREDD – 9 Rue Julien Lauprêtre, 06200 Nice