Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 June 2025
14. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on efforts to transpose the provisions of Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive relating to data centres. [33086/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraArticle 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, subject to Union and national law protecting trade and business secrets and confidentiality, on the energy performance of their data centres. My Department is progressing the drafting of the statutory provisions for the transposition of Article 12, including assigning an appropriate authority to oversee compliance, which are expected to be in place by Quarter 3, 2025. The Department is keeping stakeholders and the Commission updated.
Also, as the Deputy is aware, Article 12 of the EED is supplemented by the directly effective delegated regulation 2024/1364 that requires the same in-scope data centres to make public and report annually key performance indicators to a European database on data centres established by the European Commission. This information is to help establish a common Union wide scheme to measure and rate the energy performance and sustainability of data centres, work on which the Commission has commenced. The European database will be made publicly available by the Commission on an aggregated level. My Department is responsible for coordinating this reporting by data centres operating in Ireland which is underway.
