Irish data centre giants will have to publish energy performance details under new EU law

Companies that run data centres will have to report their energy use, according to a document prepared for Simon Coveney ahead of meeting with Microsoft, Google and Amazon

Irish data centre owners, including Big Tech firms such as Microsoft and Google, will be required to publicly disclose their energy performance under new EU guidelines, an internal government document shows.

In March, the EU updated its Energy Efficiency Directive which will require, for the first time, a “reporting scheme” for large data centres. A briefing document prepared for Simon Coveney, the enterprise minister, reveals that the updated directive means that “data centre owners and ...

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