INTERXION
five pillars to achieve carbon neutrality .”
“ The first pillar is clean energy . So by 2025 , 75 % of all data centres shall be running on clean energy and by 2030 , 100 % of them will be . Then we need to look at energy efficiency to make sure the data centres are efficient , this is pillar number two . The third pillar looks into reusing energy . We also have the circular economy as the fourth pillar and finally , we look at water usage . These five pillars form the base of the association ,” he outlined .
Approved by the European Commission ’ s Executive Vice President Frans Timmerman , the association sets up its own regulatory framework and is run without external legislation . Embraced by Interxion , the association is a collaborative space that sets ambitious but achievable sustainable goals for data centre providers .
Including most of the continent ' s key players , the current signatories of the pact represent 90 % of the industry in Europe . Just this year , the pact presented its first policy paper to the European Commission following its request . The policy paper includes a comprehensive set of 19 recommendations . These recommendations cover public procurement regulations from the procurement and development of renewable energies that can be used by the cloud and data centre industry , to supporting the development of circular
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