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Public sector leadership of environmentally sound procurement of data centers

• Specific Challenge: Stimulate market transformation towards more

sustainable energy products, buildings and services.

• The Energy Efficiency Directive requires that central governments

purchase only products, services and buildings with high energy- efficiency performance.

• Overcome operational barriers related to sustainable energy public

spending such as the lack of knowledge, practical training and tailored guidelines; the lack of willingness to change procurement habits; or perceived legal uncertainties.

• Type of action: Coordination and Support

The call

The project aims to provide public sector organisations with quantifiable information on the environmental impact of data centers and related procurement choices. Data Center EURECA: “EU Resource Efficiency Coordination Action”

Vision Statement

• The goal is to demonstrate the value of energy saving and environmental

data centre best practices & policies, triggering related procurement actions

• Provide public Sector organisations with a tailored solution for ‘green’

data center procurement:

• Identifying where money and energy can be saved
• Assisting with the deployment of self-improvement strategies
• Assisting with the navigation of new technology markets with benchmarking

tools & resources

• Facilitating awareness, learning and knowledge sharing activities

Goal and Objectives

• “Data centres” and “Computer/Server rooms” provide the core digital

infrastructure and connectivity foundation for all users of domestic, corporate and Public Sector digital services.

• Data centres are enablers of energy saving initiatives and e-services
• But data centers are large energy consumers and can easily waste a great

deal, if not constantly reviewed and carefully monitored

• EU2020 targets demand energy efficiency and increased share of “green”

energy, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

• A lack of awareness of reliable metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs)

and best practices

• Reduced budgets to work with – looking for fast ROI and Opex savings
• Barriers to change – cultural, complexity and ownership

Public Sector DC Environment

• CENELEC & ETSI Standards & KPI’s
• ISO/IEC Standards & KPI’s
• ISO/IEC data centre “maturity model”
• EU Code 2015 – is now 155 Best Practices
• FP7 “Cluster” of 8 projects (DC4Cities, DOLFIN, GENIC, RenewIT,

GreenDataNet, GEYSER, All4Green and CoolEmAll) to define common metrics, methodologies & terminology.

Just arrived or on the horizon

The concept

• To collectively take the lead on the legislation debate – bring forward

solutions

• To increase the profile of data centre industry innovations, expertise and

solutions

• By providing constructive comment and feedback
• Encouraging your public sector contacts to get involved and to support

energy efficiency best practices

How you can help

• We are looking for public sector partners to work with us to help prove

the concept

• Looking for public sector “champions” in this field
• To drive knowledge sharing and networking
• Help define the training requirements for EURECA tool
• Public Sector organisations can join the DCA FREE to participate click

HERE http://www.data-central.org/?page=DCAMemberPubSec

What we need