Incomplete data threatens effectiveness of EED

The Netherlands published 2025 Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) reports (detailing 2024 operating data) for 104 data centers; an increase of 24 facilities compared with the number of data centers that reported data in 2024 (for the 2023 operating year). The number of reporting data centers is still significantly below the estimates for the total number of data centers in the Netherlands provided by Cloudscene (289), datacentermap.com (194) and the Dutch Data Center Association (184).

The submitted data is also incomplete: 27% of the facilities representing 48% of the total reported data center space did not provide total and IT energy use. By extension, this means these facilities did not report PUE or water usage effectiveness (WUE) metrics (Table 1). While this report addresses only the data reported in the Netherlands, Uptime Intelligence's previous analysis of the European database data published by the European Commission for the 2023 operating year indicates that the problems of missing and incomplete data submissions can be expected to extend to the full European dataset for 2024 (see Uptime Institute EED survey responses: data center labeling and rating process, data reporting improvements).