{"id":22135,"date":"2022-12-09T01:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/tighter-regulation-of-datacenter-water-energy-use-expected-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:03:21","slug":"tighter-regulation-of-datacenter-water-energy-use-expected-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/tighter-regulation-of-datacenter-water-energy-use-expected-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Tighter regulation of datacenter water, energy use expected \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assessing the sustainability credentials of your company’s colocation provider is currently not so simple as they don’t all report the same information. However, a move to support best practices will have an advantage in future when the regulatory noose tightens.<\/p>\n

These findings come in a new report from the Uptime Institute<\/a> that examines how some colocation datacenter companies are seeking to tackle sustainability challenges through changes to cooling systems, energy efficiency, and renewable energy procurement, as well as navigating the regulatory landscape.<\/p>\n

It observes that a large number of enterprises use colocation facilities as a key part of their IT infrastructure, putting the figure at about one in three. As sustainability rises up the corporate agenda, this is becoming an increasingly important consideration for colocation customers as they try to improve their own sustainability credentials.<\/p>\n

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