Data Center Regulation Trends To Watch In 2025
DataCenter Knowledge, Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
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.