Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on progress in fulfilling the obligations in article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 regarding a database for data centres. [10347/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 (‘EED’) provides an obligation for Member States to require that owners and operators of data centres with an installed information technology power demand of at least 500kW to monitor and make publicly available information on the energy performance of their data centres. My Department is progressing the transposition of the relevant provisions of Article 12 which are expected to be in place by May 2025.

Article 12 of the EED is supplemented by the directly effective Commission Delegated Regulation 2024/1364 that requires the same in-scope data centre operators to make public and report annually key performance indicators to a centralised European database on data centres which has been established by the European Commission in accordance with Article 12 (3). The reported information is to help establish a common EU wide scheme to measure and rate the energy performance and sustainability of data centres. The European database will be publicly available on an aggregated level. My Department is the Member State coordinator for overseeing reporting by data centres operating in Ireland. In that regard, my Department has engaged directly with data centre operators to facilitate their access to the database to enable and assist their reporting obligations. This reporting is now underway.

My Department is continuing to engage with the Commission and the various stakeholders involved.