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Industry Leaders Commit to Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact January 21, 2021
Frans Timmermans,
European Commission Executive
Vice-President for the European
Green Deal: “Citizens
across Europe use ever more
technology to go about their
daily lives and want this
technology, also to help secure
a sustainable future for people
and planet. Today’s pledge from
important parts of the data
industry constitutes a promise
to society and offers a welcome
first step towards achieving our
common ambitions for a smart and
sustainable future.”
Alban Schmutz, Chairman
of CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure
Services Providers in Europe):
“With cloud infrastructure the
backbone of the European Union’s
digital economy, our industry is
committed to the idea that we
must all play a central role in
addressing climate change. This
commitment underpins a roadmap
for Europe’s cloud
infrastructure industry to offer
climate neutral services to
customers by 2030.”
Apostolos Kakkos,
Chairman of EUDCA (European Data
Centre Association):
“Data centres are the supporting
pillars of the fourth industrial
revolution and, as seen during
the COVID-19 pandemic, are
essential infrastructure of not
only the digital economy but of
the entire global economy. It is
our duty to commit to a
self-regulatory initiative that
will help to ensure the
operational availability,
sustainability and the future of
our industry.”
Simon Besteman, CEO of
ISPConnect & Director of Dutch
Cloud Community added, "ISPConnect
and the Dutch Cloud Community
acknowledge that as Cloud
infrastructure, being the
backbone of the digital economy,
we have a responsibility to play
a central role in driving the
fight against climate change.
This pact that we make with the
data centers and the other
stakeholders of the digital
ecosystem provides the roadmap
towards a climate neutral cloud
at the horizon of 2030.
The Climate Neutral Data Centre
Pact establishes a Self
Regulatory Initiative which has
been developed in co-operation
with the European Commission. It
supports both the European Green
Deal, which aims to make Europe
the world’s first climate
neutral continent by 2050, and
the European Data Strategy by
making EU data centres climate
neutral by 2030.
The Self Regulatory Initiative
sets ambitious goals that will
facilitate Europe’s essential
transition to a greener economy.
It commits signatories to
ensuring their data centres are
climate neutral by setting
ambitious measurable targets for
2025 and 2030 in the following
areas:
Progress towards achieving
climate neutral data centres
will be monitored by the
European Commission twice a
year.
Signatories:
Cloud providers and operators of
data centres |
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One year after the adoption of
the European Green Deal, leading
cloud infrastructure providers
and data centre operators have
created the Climate Neutral Data
Centre Pact. Twenty-five
companies and 17 associations
have agreed to a Self Regulatory
Initiative to make data centres in
Europe climate neutral by 2030.
Companies joining the Pact
represent the most significant
industry players in cloud
infrastructure and data centres
in Europe. This is an historic
and unprecedented commitment by
an industry to proactively lead
the transition to a climate
neutral economy.