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If the region is to reduce its energy consumption, data centers have to play a major role.
Through Article 8 in the EED, organizations are required to conduct energy audits and implement energy management systems.
For data centers, this can represent a big challenge.
Unlike GDPR which focuses more on process and procedures, EED will be more metrics based.
Technical Lead, Data Centre & Sustainability, Nutanix.
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There will undoubtedly be a tendency to take a wait-and-see approach.
Regardless of the EED, finding energy efficiencies in data centers has become increasingly key to their viability.
Data centers need to modernize, embrace automation and ahybrid cloudapproach with the ability to move workloads quickly.
Outsourcing the energy problem tocolocation providersor hyperscalers is a potential strategy but it is not without risks.
There is also the added risk of relying on third party sources for data.
EED, after all, should be viewed as an opportunity.
The challenge is how to make the most of that opportunity.
It wont be easy, not if compared with GDPR anyway but it will be rewarding.
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