The six steps to get started with the EU Code of Conduct for data centres

摘要

With Western European data centre electricity consumption of 56 TWh per year in 2007 projected to increase to 104 TWh per year by 2020, energy efficiency has increasingly become a topic of discussion and concern among data centre operators. The cost of this energy, the risk of energy shortfalls, the pressure of ever-increasing legislation on C02 emissions and the reputational risk of being seen as energy-inefficient have all driven data centre managers to ask how exactly they can cut energy use in the enterprise.