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Development of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Data Centres, Server Rooms and Cloud Services

2020Science for policyEnvironment and climate change Innovation and growth
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The development of the Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for Data Centres, Server Rooms and Cloud Services is aimed at helping public authorities to ensure that data centres’ equipment and services are procured in such a way that they deliver environmental improvements that contribute to European policy objectives for energy, climate change and resource efficiency, as well as reducing life cycle costs.
Three priority areas of focus are identified as the basis for criteria: 1) ICT System Performance, 2) Mechanical and electrical system performance, 3) Reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) Emissions. For each area of focus, one or more criteria are provided, accompanied by the background technical rationale and a summary of the stakeholder contributions that support the final version of each criterion. Procurers can apply the criteria and engage tenderers to reduce the life cycle environmental impacts of their activities, focusing on those areas presenting the most improvement opportunities from cost and market perspectives and for which performance can be verified.
The identified procurement processes and final green criteria are also described in a separate document, published as a Staff Working Document of the Commission: SWD(2020) 55 final. Together these two documents aim to provide public authorities with orientation on how to effectively integrate these GPP criteria into their procurement processes.
Dodd, N., Alfieri, F., De Oliveira Gama Caldas, M., Maya-Drysdale, L., Viegand, J., Flucker, S., Tozer, R., Whitehead, B., Wu, A. and Brocklehurst, F., Development of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Data Centres, Server Rooms and Cloud Services, EUR 30251 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-19447-7, doi:10.2760/964841, JRC118558.
2020-06-08
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC118558
978-92-76-19447-7 (online)
1831-9424 (online)
EUR 30251 EN , OP KJ-NA-30251-EN-N (online)
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ENGDodd, N., Alfieri, F., De Oliveira Gama Caldas, M., Maya-Drysdale, L., Viegand, J., Flucker, S., Tozer, R., Whitehead, B., Wu, A. and Brocklehurst, F., Development of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Data Centres, Server Rooms and Cloud Services, EUR 30251 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-19447-7, doi:10.2760/964841, JRC118558.
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