{"id":1012072,"date":"2026-06-04T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012072"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:59:39","slug":"eu-plans-energy-standards-for-data-centres-amid-concerns-over-soaring-power-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/eu-plans-energy-standards-for-data-centres-amid-concerns-over-soaring-power-use\/","title":{"rendered":"EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will develop minimum energy-efficiency standards for data centres, it said on Wednesday, as concerns grow over their rapidly rising power use. EU data centre capacity is expected to more than \u200cdouble in the coming \u2060years, \u2060reaching 28 gigawatts by 2030 from 12 GW last year. That expansion will lift their share of EU electricity consumption beyond the current 2.5%. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said it would develop \u200bminimum performance standards for both new and existing data centres, with a &#8220;needs assessment&#8221; due by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will develop minimum energy-efficiency standards for data centres, it said on Wednesday, as concerns grow over their rapidly rising power use. EU data centre capacity is expected to more than \u200cdouble in the coming \u2060years, \u2060reaching 28 gigawatts by 2030 from 12 GW last year. That expansion will lift their share of EU electricity consumption beyond the current 2.5%. The European Commission said it would develop \u200bminimum performance standards for both new and existing data centres, with a &#8220;needs assessment&#8221; due by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012094,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012072\/revisions\/1012094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}