Discover how upcoming regulations impact data center operators, from new compliance rules to key takeaways from the EU’s challenges with the Energy Efficiency Directive
Government bodies worldwide are putting regulations in place to improve the sustainability and resiliency of data centers. That, in turn, forces data center operators to implement new processes and procedures to meet the new requirements.
The European Union’s revised Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), designed to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, requires data center owners and operators in its 27 member countries to report data on energy and water usage annually to an EU database – and the first deadline was mid-September of this year.
Meanwhile, the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), approved in late 2022, requires financial institutions to strengthen resiliency by taking measures to mitigate cyber-attacks and ensure uptime. Starting January 2025, that includes developing and testing business continuity plans, performing penetration tests and vulnerability scans and doing remediation, and reporting any major incidents or face fines for noncompliance.
“Governments rightfully want to understand data center energy usage and control it, and on the other level is the fact that IT operations are critical to our functional economy and our society. And if data centers go down, it’s going to get ugly fast, so they’re looking at how to prevent that,” said Jay Dietrich, the Uptime Institute’s research director of sustainability.
Read the full story from AI Business’ sister publication Data Center Knowledge
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