When Will Regulators Get Serious On Datacenter Emissions Reporting?
The Register, April 11th, 2023
An end to greenwashing won't come without a fight
Efforts to regulate datacenters are starting to stack up.
Over the past year we've seen an uptick in efforts to rein in datacenter emissions, water consumption, or simply standardize reporting. But, despite major cloud providers and hyperscalers' sincerest net-zero commitments, legislators want more transparency and even fines for companies that refuse to clean up their act when it's not financially convenient. And as you might expect, not everyone is happy about it.