Government Targets Data Centres: Will Require 80 per Cent of Their Energy Consumption to Be Renewable

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The Executive raises energy and water efficiency standards to avoid a bubble. Centres must be operated by an entity established in the EU that will maintain data on Community territory.

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The Government will require data centres to support with new renewable generation, every hour of operation, at least 80% of their energy consumption, according to the draft royal decree to regulate the requirements of energy sustainability, environmental sustainability and resilience and digital sovereignty applicable to the ‘data centers’.

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The government seeks to anticipate the emergence of the data center sector in Spain and is already working on a regulation to regulate its activity. The Ministry for...