EU Commission Workshop Report: “Green Data Centres: policy measures, methodologies and metrics” Report is now public, an interesting read..
On 1 April 2014 a technical workshop on “Green Data Centres: policy measures, methodologies and metrics” was hosted by the European Commission premises in Brussels. The interest of the Commission in Green Data Centres was triggered by the substantial increase in energy consumption and the general environmental impact during use, production and end-of-life of the data centres, and the forecast that their energy consumption will largely outpace the general growth in energy consumption and production.