UII UPDATE 485 | APRIL 2026
Intelligence Update
Draft EED delegated regulation sidesteps critical issues
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The European Commission has published the draft Energy efficiency — rating scheme for data centres in Europe, proposing amendments to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1364, with comments due by April 23, 2026. Uptime Intelligence will prepare, submit and publish its detailed response by April 15, 2026.
The proposed rating scheme introduces a simplified label that should be broadly acceptable to data center operators (see Figure 1). Unfortunately, it does not address IT infrastructure efficiency.
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