Universal Registration Document 2023

/ Share of capital expenditure (“CapEx”) eligible and aligned with the Taxonomy, by environmental objective

/ Share of operating expenses (“OpEx”) eligible and aligned with the Taxonomy, by environmental objective

The detailed tables presenting the share of turnover, CapEx and OpEx resulting from activities that are economically eligible and/or aligned with the Taxonomy are presented in Section 4.7.

Ongoing work on data centers

In 2023, Publicis Groupe began an in‑depth review of its own, shared and third‑party cloud data centers. The aim of this work is to identify and qualify the proportion of these infrastructures aligned with the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centers, meeting the criteria set out in the format published in September 2023 (Assessment Framework for Data Centers in the Context of Activity 8.1 in the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act). The first step was to define a training module for the teams concerned, with the help of an independent external consultancy, and to draw up a work program. This work will cover the Data centers directly, those leased from third parties and the Cloud with external partners. This approach is voluntary and is intended to provide a sufficiently precise analysis to help improve energy efficiency and reduce data center energy consumption. This analysis work will be rolled out in 2024 and will enable us to better qualify these activities. For 2023, these activities were considered, by default, as non‑aligned.