Next week, the Netherlands will come together with Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Denmark with new energy rules for tech companies, Bloomberg reports. This takes place during a meeting between the energy ministers of EU countries. Data centers are increasingly consuming energy and currently account for about 3% of total electricity consumption in the EU.
Part of the proposal is stricter reporting requirements for data centers, including CO2 emissions, renewable energy use and efficiency of electricity use, cooling and some water. The European Commission should also be able to set “minimum performance criteria” for technology companies.
Recently, the arrival of a large data center from Facebook’s parent company Meta to Zeewolde was hampered in part by concerns about the high electricity consumption of the complex, which will be the largest of its kind in Europe. Similar criticism was leveled at a large Google data center project in Luxembourg.
Source: RTL
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