OCP underground hyperscalers enables compliance of Energy Efficiency Act.pdf

1、Path forward to fast track hyperscalerdatacenter projects in Europe while reducing operating costs and carbon emissions.Going underground in urban centersDatacenters in the heart of our citiesAndrew Bourget,CEO and co-founder,ECCUS SADavid Gyulnazaryan,Co-founder,Impleon SASDatacenters in the heart

2、of our citiesDC SUSTAINABILITYSUSTAINABILITYMajor regulatory and societal hurdles now exist in Europe,due to climate change issues,with new laws being enacted in Europe(EU,Switzerland,etc.)leading to escalating costs,technical feasibility challenges and real-estate scarcity.Pushback by local communi

3、ties lead to major delays,extensive legal procedures,scuttle projects or simply rendering impossible the awarding of a building permit.Timeline urgency due to predicted scarcity in transformers and other key electrical power componentsSetting the sceneHyper scale data centre legislative challenges i

4、n EuropeEnergy Efficiency Directive(EED)includes transparency,efficiency requirements&reporting obligations for DC,depending on electricity requirements-entry in EU DC registerObligation to carry out a feasibility study for waste heat utilizationEnergy Efficiency Act(EnEfG)the implementation of the

5、EED includes specifications on transparency,waste heat utilization rates and power usage effectiveness(PUE)for DCClimate energy Act&Climate and resilience Act seriously curtails the surfaces that can be used by industry and establishes energy efficiency requirements.Federal Act on Spatial Planning a

6、nd the CO2 Act have placed a cap on the available industrial land availability with stringent CO2 emission limitations impacting project design but also investments and loans portfolio mixes by banks and funds.Hyper scale data center community push-backScarcity in industrial estate land creates comp