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50 Summer 2019 European Energy Innovation

DATA CENTRES ENERGY EFFICIENCY

The European Code
of Conduct for Energy
Efficiency in Data Centres

By Luca Castellazzi, Tiago Serrenho, Paolo Bertoldi, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
The European Code of
Conduct for Energy efficiency. The EU DC CoC is also and material on the opportunity to
Efficiency in Data Centres a forum for the industry, experts improve efficiency, to provide an open
(EU DC CoC) programme and Member States to discuss process and forum for discussion
energy efficiency. With an open representing European stakeholder

is a voluntary initiative started in and continuous dialogue regarding requirements, to create and provide

2008 and managed by the European market developments and product an enabling tool for industry to

Commission’s Joint Research Centre performances, the EU DC CoC has implement cost-effective energy

(JRC), which addresses primarily the objective to identify and focus saving opportunities, to develop a

data centre owners and operators, on key issues and agree on solutions set of easily understood metrics to

and secondly the supply chain and among the participants, along with measure the current efficiencies and

service providers. the setting of ambitious voluntary improvement, to produce a common

standards and commitments. set of principles in harmonisation

The EU Code of Conduct is a flexible with other international initiatives and

voluntary programme to initiate The aim of the EU CoC is to raise finally to support procurement, by

and develop new policies within the awareness among managers, owners, providing criteria for data centres and

data centres sector to raise energy investors, with targeted information key IT equipment (based on other

Codes of Conducts for IT products).

The EU DC CoC covers Data Centres
of all sizes, from server rooms to
dedicated buildings, existing and
under development. It covers both
the IT power and the Facility power
and takes into consideration the
equipment procurement and the
system design.

In order to participate in the EU
CoC programme there are two
possibilities: Data Centre owners and
operators can join as Participants
and vendors, consultants or industry
associations can join as Endorsers.

The participation process, for existing
data centres, starts with a partnership
application and an initial energy
measurement and energy audit to
identify the major energy saving
opportunities based on the EU DC
CoC Best Practice document. Then,
an Action Plan must be prepared and
submitted. Once the Action Plan is

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