# Excerpts from the EED

By 15 May 2024 and annually thereafter, Member States will require owners and operators of data centres with power demand of at least 500kW, to make specific information (set out in Annex VI) publicly available, except information subject to national and EU laws protecting trade and business secrets and confidentiality. The Commission will by 15 May 2025 prepare an assessment and a report, which could be accompanied by a proposal on further measures to improve energy efficiency in data centres. In accordance with Article 24, Member States shall ensure that data centres with a total rated energy input exceeding 1 MW utilise the waste heat or other waste heat recovery applications unless they can show that it is not technically or economically feasible.

The Commission shall establish a European database on data centres that includes information communicated by the obligated data centres in accordance with paragraph 1. The EU database shall be publicly available on aggregated level.

By 15 May 2025, the Commission shall assess the available data on the energy efficiency of data centres submitted to it by the Member States pursuant to paragraph 2 and shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council. The report shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by a proposal on further measures to improve energy efficiency, including on establishing minimum performance standards and an assessment on the feasibility of transition towards a net-zero emission data centres sector, in close consultation with the relevant stakeholders. Such a proposal may establish a timeframe within which existing data centres are to be required to meet minimum performance criteria.

build, whenever possible, on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) instead of Simple Payback Periods (SPP) in order to take account of long-term savings, residual values of long-term investments and discount rates;

## Annex VIa

the name of the data centre, the name of the owner and operators of the data centre,

the date of entry into operation and the municipality where the data centre is based;
the floor area of the data centre; the installed power; the annual incoming and outgoing data traffic; and the amount of data stored and processed within the data centre;

the performance, during the last full calendar year, of the data centre in accordance with key performance indicators about, inter alia, energy consumption, power utilisation, temperature set points, waste heat utilisation, water usage and use of renewable energy, using as a basis, where applicable, the CEN/CENELEC EN 50600-4 "Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures", until the entry into force of the delegated act pursuant to Article 31 of this Directive.

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