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HomeTrends in data centre energy consumption under the European code of conduct for data centre energy efficiency
Trends in data centre energy consumption under the European code of conduct for data centre energy efficiency
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Climate change is recognised as one of the key challenges humankind is facing. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector including data centres generates up to 2% of the global CO2 emissions, a number on par to the aviation sector contribution, and data centres are estimated to have the fastest growing carbon footprint from across the whole ICT sector, mainly due to technological advances such as the cloud computing and the rapid growth of the use of Internet services. There are no recent estimations of the total energy consumption of the European data centre and of their energy efficiency. The aim of this paper is to evaluate, analyse and present the current trends in energy consumption and efficiency in data centres in the European Union using the data submitted by companies participating in the European Code of Conduct for Data Centre Energy Efficiency programme, a voluntary initiative created in 2008 in response to the increasing energy consumption in data centres and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic and energy supply security impacts. The analysis shows that the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the facilities participating in the programme is declining year after year. This confirms that voluntary approaches could be effective in addressing climate and energy issue.
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- Corporate author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Bertoldi, Paolo ; Avgerinou, Maria ; Castellazzi, Luca
- Themes: Information technology and telecommunications , Energy research
- Subject: climate change , code of conduct , data collection , energy consumption , energy efficiency , environmental impact , information technology , reduction of gas emissions , research report
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| ISSN 1831-9424 | ISBN 978-92-79-76445-5 | DOI 10.2760/358256 | Catalogue number KJ-NA-28874-EN-N |
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