BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is preparing a package of measures to improve data centres’ energy savings, the bloc’s energy commissioner said on Thursday. “I will propose a data centre energy efficiency package,” EU energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen told a conference in Brussels, without providing further details. Data centres account for 3% of EU electricity […]
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EU plans energy saving measures for data centres
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is preparing a package of measures to improve data centres’ energy savings, the bloc’s energy commissioner said on Thursday.
“I will propose a data centre energy efficiency package,” EU energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen told a conference in Brussels, without providing further details.
Data centres account for 3% of EU electricity demand, but their consumption is expected to increase rapidly this decade due to the expansion of artificial intelligence.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett, editing by Bart Meijer)