Nestled in a 5,593-page federal spending bill approved last month were several provisions that could tighten energy standards for data centers.
The $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included $900B in coronavirus relief measures, was signed into law on Dec. 27. As part of a section on energy policy, the sweeping bill establishes a “data center energy practitioner program,” which would certify experts in data center efficiency, among other provisions.
“Those skills exist in consultancies or large companies, but they’re not available to some of the smaller data centers out there,” said Eric Masanet, a professor at Northwestern University who studies data center energy consumption.
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