Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact is a pledge of industry players and trade association of cloud infrastructure services and data centres in Europe to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. It is supported by the European Commission and Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal.[1]

The European Green Deal expects Europe to be climate neutral by 2050.[2]

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact pledge addresses 5 areas: Prove energy efficiency with measurable targets; purchase 100% carbon-free energy; water conservation; Reuse, repair and recycle servers; look for ways to recycle heat. Therefore, the pledge addresses not only carbon neutrality but climate neutrality.

Metrics to be achieved by 2025 and 2030 will have to be certified by an independent auditor, except for SMEs.[3]

One of the originality of the pledge is that if a data centre operator signatory of the pledge does not meet the expected metrics, the company would be expelled by all trade association signatories of the Pact.[3]

Signatories

Cloud infrastructure providers and Data centre signatories include:[4][5] 3DS Outscale (Dassault Systèmes), Altuhost, Aruba, Atos, AWS (Amazon Web Services), CyrusOne, Data4, DigiPlex, Digital Realty & Interxion, Equinix, FlameNetworks, Gigas, Google, Ikoula, Ilger, Infloclip, Irideos, ITnet, LCL, Leaseweb, NTT, OVHcloud, Register, Scaleway, and Seeweb.

In addition, the 17 trade associations signed up at the launch are:[4][5] Association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe (CISPE), EUDCA, the European Data Centre Association, Cloud28+, Cloud Community Poland, Danish Cloud Community, Datacentre Industrien, Data Centre Alliance, Dutch Data Centre Association, Dutch Hosting Providers Association, Eco - Alliance for strengthening digital infrastructures in Germany, EuroCloud Croatia, EuroCloud France, France Datacenter, Host in Scotland, IKT-Norge, ISPConnect, and TechUK.

References
  1. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495155/Cloud-and-datacentre-giants-unite-to-create-climate-neutral-EU-datacentre-industry-by-2030
  2. "2050 long-term strategy". Climate Action - European Commission. November 23, 2016.
  3. "Governance – Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact".
  4. "Data centre, cloud leaders announce sustainability pledge | Data Centres | Data Centre Magazine". www.datacentremagazine.com.
  5. "Green Deal europeo, Aruba si impegna per la neutralità climatica dei data center". gonews.it. January 21, 2021.
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