DATA CENTRES. ENERGY EFFICIENCY and DATA CENTRES Antonio SANCHEZ - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY and DATA CENTRES

Antonio SANCHEZ APARICIO

Antonio.SANCHEZ-APARICIO@ec.europa.eu

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG CONNECT H.2 – Smart Mobility & Living

Disclaimer: These contents do also not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Commission.

having a high external dependence on energy EU is the largest energy importer in the world EU economies and citizens are vulnerable to speculative market movements in oil and gas prices developing a low-carbon economy is one of the EU’s key ambitions

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Energy dependence EU 28: 54.1% Euro zone: 62.4%

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energy bill: € 400 billion/year more than € 1 billion per day

transforming this weakness into an

• pportunity

Addressing clime and energy challenges: investments on research & innovation programmes FP7 – H 2020 investing € 27 billion (35%) of H 2020 budget, in line with the Paris agreement

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introducing new regulations

fostering digitization on energy areas: transport, industry, transport, EV/CAD, cities, buildings , NZEB, ICT - Data Centres

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Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU (EED) Energy Performance

• f Buildings (EPBD)

2010/31/EU Digitising European Industry Com (2016) 180 final Mobilising ICT to facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy COM (2009) 111 Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency 2008

The green energy and environmental economy sectors are an opportunity to growth and job creation in EU

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environmental employment distribution by sectors in 2014

According to Eurostat

employment in the EU-28’s environmental economy rose from 2.8 million in 2000 to 4.2 million in 2014. environmental economy in the EU-28 generated in 2014 € 710 billion of output € 289 billion of value added. the environmental economy is growing faster than the overall economy, in terms

• f employment, added value and GDP

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technological revolution, industry 4.0 internet and cloud computing new working way to communicate and store information the exponential growth of

• nline data

traffic Increasing the number and size of Data Centres

Data Centres are highly demanding on energy consumption small-medium DC around 100 m2 15/20 Racks will consume 2.5 Giga watts - 525,000 €/year the biggest power consumers by M2 responsible for about 2 % of energy consumption and CO2 emissions DATA CENTRES.

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a big challenge and

• pportunity

for the sector by optimising

• perational

costs the industry in general

Developing:

• materials
• high

performance Air- conditioning

• free cooling
• reusing heat

dissipated by DC's

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