Intelligence Update
When net-zero goals meet harsh realities
For more than a decade, the data center industry — and the wider digital infrastructure that relies on it — has lived with the threat of much greater sustainability legislation or other forms of mandatory or semi-mandatory controls. But in a period of boom, it has mostly been a background worry, with legislators more concerned about disrupting an important new industry.
The EU, for example, first introduced the voluntary Code of Conduct for data centers in 2008, warning that legislation would follow if carbon and energy footprints were not brought under control. In the UK, a carbon reduction commitment was required of data centers but was later withdrawn.
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