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We submitted brief input on the second draft EU proposals for Green Public Procurement for data centres on 4th July.

The Commission is keen to ensure that public authorities are able to make sustainable choices when buying data centre services, and therefore green public procurement criteria are being developed.  In the past, such approaches have had limited success so we have been monitoring this closely. We responded to an initial survey, produced a pre-emptive note assessing the pros and cons of different data centre performance metrics, attended a Stakeholder Workshop in Seville on 16th November 2017 and submitted a response to the initial draft proposals in December. At the time we were concerned that there was too much focus on individual components and not enough qualitative elements. This meant that a data centre procurement could meet all the criteria and still deliver a hopelessly inefficient service.  In May we attended the second stakeholder workshops to comment on the second draft, which was much improved. These brief comments are the input we made to that second draft.

GPP COMMENTS 2ND DRAFT TECHUK FINAL (PDF)