Paul Benoit

CEO

Qarnot

Paul Benoit graduated from the French École polytechnique, started his career in 2000 as a technical director in a web agency. In 2002, he joined the R&D department of a major bank with one of the largest HPC infrastructures dedicated to risk analysis. In 2010, he founded Qarnot computing, providing its clients a unique solution to drastically reduce the carbon footprint linked to their digital activities. Qarnot distributes its computing infrastructure in non-datacenter buildings where huge amounts of heat generated by servers can be locally and directly valued. Today, the company has more than 70 employees.