The Government Softens the Data Centre Decree and Gives Them More Time to Meet the New Green Demands in Exchange for Being Able to Disconnect Them
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They will be able to justify from the outset 80% of renewable consumption every hour, or benefit from a slightly more lax regime, with the possibility of disconnecting if there are problems in the network.The government looks at Ireland and its measures at the “significant risk” of blackouts due to data centres.The government softens some aspects of the draft Royal Decree to regulate data centres, with a new text that, after the strong rejection…
In this case, it was with the new royal decree on data centres that the companies concerned presented more than 600 allegations during the period of public consultation.The Executive has had to modulate several aspects in response to the excessive demands that they had denounced from the 'data center' sector.In particular, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition has forwarded to the Council of State this Monday the proposal of RD data centres…
It sends the Council of State a new proposal that the new centers will have to comply with after the criticisms of the sector to the previous draft. The regulation will be for those plants of 10 MW or more, and not from 1, as the previous text reflected. It will also allow the supply of electricity from renewable plants created at least 36 months before and not 18, as in the original draft.
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The Government revises the royal decree that prepares to regulate the activity of the new data centres and partially softens the environmental requirements that it intends to apply to them, following the criticisms of the entire technological and energy sector and after the critical report of the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC), in which the regulator demanded to moderate some of the obligations.
In return, they will be the first to disconnect if the network fails. This automatic disconnection is the most striking novelty of the new text. More information: The government will require that 80% of the energy consumption of data centers be renewable generation.
The government has closed one of the great regulatory unknowns that had pending before 29-N: the royal decree that will set the conditions for installing data centers...
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