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ARTICLE · 22 SEPTEMBER 2026

Data Centres: New Regulation On Rating Scheme And Consultation On Minimum Performance Standards

The European Commission has published its final Delegated Regulation establishing a common rating scheme for data centres, introducing electronic sustainability labels for facilities with at least 500 kW of IT power demand. The regulation incorporates significant changes from the draft version, particularly around nuclear energy consumption indicators, and will require data centre operators to understand complex conditionality requirements for energy procurement arrangements.

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Regulation establishing common rating scheme for data centres

The European Commission published the Delegated Regulation establishing the common rating scheme for data centres.

We looked at the draft Regulation in our Insights Blog post: Data Centres: EU consults on Regulation for rating sustainability. As indicated, data centres with installed information technology power demand of at least 500 kW will be rated by electronic labels issued by a European database. A label will be created automatically by 15 August 2027 and every year thereafter. Labels will be publicly available in the European database.

The main change in the final Regulation as compared to the draft version is that key performance indicators, many of which appear on the electronic label, are to be included for nuclear energy consumption. For example:

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