Ireland has missed another deadline from the EU to ensure that energy-intensive data centres make details of their annual resource use available to the public. Under the recast Energy Efficiency Directive, the Commission is collecting aggregated national figures to make them publicly available in a database. The Department of Climate (Decc) is acting as the coordinator and assisting data centre operators with this process.  Under the directive, EU member states must also ensure operators of data centres monitor energy performance and, importantly, make this data publicly available at a national level. They must provide details of the facility owner, its…

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