The European Commission ("EC") will be putting forward a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package in Q1 2026 - together with the Strategy Roadmap on Digitalisation and AI - the aim of which is to achieve carbon-neutral data centres by 2030. As digitalisation accelerates, data centres are a vital and quickly growing infrastructure across Europe and the world, supporting our ever-growing use of cloud services and storage, AI, streaming services and more. However, their rapidly increasing energy demand is a challenge. As part of the EED, the EC published an assessment of the first tranche of. Operators need to balance green energy procurement with operational resilience in an evolving regulatory landscape Power is mission critical for data centres and accounted for around 1. 5% of global electricity consumption in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency. Speaking at a conference in Brussels on Thursday, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen.
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