This whitepaper from WB Power Services looks at the impact of the Industrial Emissions Directive and Medium Combustion Plant Directive on Data Centre (DC) emissions.

With Data Centre infrastructure on the rise across the UK and wider Europe, there has rightly been increases in focus on the contribution of DC’s to pollutant levels. With this focus comes prescribed legislation, such as the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010 (IED) and the Medium Combustion Plant Directive. However, these legislations can present troublesome challenges and barriers to data centres, due to their blanket approach.

This paper aims to raise points for discussion on how best the DC stakeholders can move forward to achieve a common objective within a defined and clear timetable, carrying the objective of developing a bespoke code of practice for generating plant within the data centre market.