Article 26
Information on energy efficiency
(Article 27da(2), point (m), of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014)
1. An applicant seeking authorisation to operate a CT pursuant to Article 27db of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 shall provide in its application for authorisation information on the expected power utilisation effectiveness ratio as defined by ISO/IEC 30134-2:2016 (13) and the best practices referred to in the most recent version of the European Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency.
2. For the purposes of the expected power utilisation effectiveness ratio referred to in paragraph 1, the applicant shall consider the activities set out in points 8.1 of Annexes I and II to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 (14).
(13) Available at: ISO/IEC 30134-2:2016 — Information technology — Data centres — Key performance indicators — Part 2: Power usage effectiveness (PUE).
(14) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives (OJ L 442, 9.12.2021, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2021/2139/oj).