Jay
Dietrich
Seb
Shehadi
The trend towards regulating and controlling data center energy use, efficiency and sustainability continues to grow globally, with the appearance of utility rate management regulations and the propagation policies influenced by the EU’s EED.
Seb Shehadi
Sebastian Shehadi is Uptime Institute's Research Analyst for regulation, policy and legislation across the data center industry. Mr Shehadi has a decade's experience as a business journalist covering international investment and geopolitics, with a focus on the EMEA region. He has written for the Financial Times, BBC, New Statesman, Investment Monitor and many other publications.
sshehadi@uptimeinstitute.com
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Data center sustainability standards grow globally
Data center sustainability standards 2025
This briefing report identifies and describes several de facto standards and laws used in the field of data center sustainability and efficiency (for convenience, we use the term “standards” for all).
DORA update: what the EU act means for data centers
Douglas
Donnellan
Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), data centers designated as “critical” for their role in financial services will face direct regulatory oversight and new resiliency requirements.
The booming data center sector grapples with tariff chaos
Daniel
Bizo
The global tariff crisis initiated by the US administration is expected to have strong, long-lasting effects on the data center sector, driving up prices and slowing growth.
EU climate reporting: simplification is not simple
Peter
Judge
The European Commission aims to ease climate risk reporting by removing mid-cap operators from CSRD's scope and delaying reports to 2028. But under current rules, 2025 reports are required and foreign-owned mid-cap operators stay covered.
