Tag: data centres

• Webinar: How data centre expansion risks derailing climate goals — and how to fix it

  Webinar | The increasing popularity of AI and other digital technologies is driving a boom in the need for data centres. AI is framed as a vehicle for progress, but its unchecked evolution also has a darker side: it risks undermining climate goals, destabilising energy systems, and deepening environmental and social inequalities. Join us for the launch of a new report on the environmental impacts of data centres, and possible EU policy responses.

• Can AI be efficient and sustainable? Going beyond energy efficiency #EUSEW2025

  Want to know more about the environmental impacts of data centres? Come to our session at the European Sustainable Energy Week, #EUSEW2025, the biggest conference dedicated to renewable energy and energy efficiency. We will be presenting about whether AI can be efficient and sustainable, and why we must go beyond energy efficiency to achieve our climate ambitions. Register now!

• Joint statement – Within Bounds: Limiting AI’s environmental impact

  Co-signed by ECOS. Authored by: Green Screen Coalition, Green Web Foundation, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Aspiration, critical infrastructure lab.

• ECOS to expand its work on the environmental impacts of data centres

  Digital technology contributes significantly to global carbon emissions and electricity consumption. To address this, infrastructure underpinning the digital transition – like data centres – must be developed and used responsibly, transparently, and with respect to our limited resources. Yet despite the urgent need, the European Union lacks coherent policies on energy and sustainability challenges arising from digital technologies. ECOS is working to change this in a new collaboration with Open Future, funded by the Green Screen Catalyst Fund.

• An energy label for Netflix? European Commission to measure environmental impact of electronic communications services

  The European Commission will explore introducing common indicators on the environmental footprint of 'electronic communications services', which could include video streaming, online gaming and social media.