THE INCREASED REQUIREMENT FOR ENTERPRISES AND DATA CENTRE OPERATORS TO PUBLISH ENERGY ACTION AUDIT PLANS PUBLICLY MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR DATA CENTRES .
DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
Stephen Lorimer , Group Technical Director at Keysource
Data centre operators will need to create / modify / adapt strategies to comply with the new reporting thresholds – including ensuring data collection , reporting processes and metric calculation are sufficiently robust to stand up to scrutiny .
The new thresholds for reporting from Articles 11 and 11A have been aligned to ensure that a representative segment of the market is captured , however , it remains a risk that the ever-increasing Edge and a proportion of enterprise operators will be missed . Reporting requirements are likely to involve information relating to the facility , its capacity and infrastructure redundancy in addition to the temperature set points
– key metrics covering Power , Water and Carbon Usage Effectiveness ; energy reuse factor ; renewable energy use and their cooling effectiveness ratio , as well as the data related statistics .
What impact will these EU directives have on the UK ?
The European Commission has been quite clear in its response to the climate emergency , stating ‘ data centres and telecommunications will need to become more energy efficient , reuse waste energy and use more renewable energy sources . They can and should become climate neutral by 2030 .’
The increased requirement for enterprises and data centre operators to publish energy action audit plans publicly must be a top priority for data centres . We need to consider what impact these EU directives will have on the UK and wider non-EU markets , including how they will affect businesses and trade .
We expect that as a minimum , current UK commitments to climate change and net zero laws applying to energy efficiency will be maintained or more likely will evolve to incorporate elements of the EUEED recast . Both corporate ESG requirements alongside global customers and operators are likely to drive the adoption of similar reporting standards ensuring consistency in reporting regimes across jurisdictions .
Consequences of non-compliance
Despite the monitoring requirements having started in May 2023 , our industry
THE INCREASED REQUIREMENT FOR ENTERPRISES AND DATA CENTRE OPERATORS TO PUBLISH ENERGY ACTION AUDIT PLANS PUBLICLY MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR DATA CENTRES .
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