143 Life Is On | Schneider Electric www.se.com Chapter 2 – Sustainable development Strategic Report 2. The hosting of the Schneider Infrastructure for Europe & Global applications is provided by IBM for both its Montpellier and Grabels data centers. Both locations are ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certified for the environmental management of IT. Those two IBM data center sites hosting Schneider workloads were awarded by the European Commission Participant status in the EU Code of Conduct (CoC) for Energy Efficiency in Data Center program. Thanks to the rationalization of the Group’s application landscape, 380 applications were decommissioned in 2021, allowing Schneider Electric to reduce data center footprints, as those applications are replaced with applications running on more efficient infrastructures. Regarding the network footprint, as the move towards cloud influences network energy consumption itself, Schneider Electric has implemented initiatives to optimize application hosting between edge and the cloud. A standard hybrid architecture, allowing local hosting on virtual machines for network intensive applications while having a cloud DRP with the best service level has been defined using the Schneider “smart bunker” solution. As part of the Group IT Resilience program (formerly known as IT Disaster Recovery program), Schneider’s own EcoStruxure ™ solutions were implemented in 63 more facilities in 2021, allowing for actionable insights to improving IT efficiency. Additionally, 3,600 Schneider Electric products were added to our IT rooms in 2021. This is highlighted by the rollout of EcoStruxure ™ IT Expert and EcoStruxure ™ IT Advisor already underway. Finally, various collaboration solutions are still being implemented for messaging, web audio, and video conferencing. This roadmap was expedited by COVID-19. Indeed, innovative digital solutions allowing virtual teams to work in an agile way were implemented in 2020 and improved in 2021 via remote collaborative brainstorming tools, electronic whiteboard, and telepresence robot. International travel was significantly reduced and replaced with digital interaction including hosting large-scale internal and external events virtually.