CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021
(Main)Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 99-2: Recommended practices for environmental sustainability
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 99-2: Recommended practices for environmental sustainability
This document is a compilation of recommended practices for improving the environmental sustainability of both new and existing data centres. Environmental impacts consider not just those associated with electricity but also water usage and other pollutants. It is recognized that the practices included are not universally applicable to all scales and business models of data centres or be undertaken by all parties involved in data centre operation, ownership or use.
Informationstechnik - Einrichtungen und Infrastrukturen von Rechenzentren - Teil 99-2: Empfohlene Praktiken für die Umweltverträglichkeit
This Technical Report provides recommended practices to implement and assess environmental sustainability in data centres, e.g. by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Technologies de l’information - Installation et infrastructures des centres de traitement de données - Partie 99-2: Pratiques recommandées en faveur de la durabilité environnementale
Informacijska tehnologija - Naprave in infrastruktura podatkovnih centrov - 99-2. del: Priporočene prakse za okoljsko trajnostnost
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2021
Nadomešča:
SIST-TP CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2019
Informacijska tehnologija - Naprave in infrastruktura podatkovnih centrov - 99-2.
del: Priporočene prakse za okoljsko trajnostnost
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 99-2:
Recommended practices for environmental sustainability
Informationstechnik - Einrichtungen und Infrastrukturen von Rechenzentren - Teil 99-2:
Empfohlene Praktiken für die Umweltverträglichkeit
Technologies de l’information - Installation et infrastructures des centres de traitement de
données - Partie 99-2: Pratiques recommandées en faveur de la durabilité
environnementale
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021
ICS:
13.020.20 Okoljska ekonomija. Environmental economics.
Trajnostnost Sustainability
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
TECHNICAL REPORT CLC/TR 50600-99-2
RAPPORT TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHER BERICHT
August 2021
ICS 13.020.20; 35.020; 35.110; 35.160 Supersedes CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2019
English Version
Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures
- Part 99-2: Recommended practices for environmental
sustainability
Technologies de l'information - Installation et infrastructures Informationstechnik - Einrichtungen und Infrastrukturen von
des centres de traitement de données - Partie 99-2: Rechenzentren - Teil 99-2: Empfohlene Praktiken für die
Pratiques recommandées en faveur de la durabilité Umweltverträglichkeit
environnementale
This Technical Report was approved by CENELEC on 2021-07-26.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
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Contents Page
European foreword .3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .8
2 Normative references .8
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations .8
3.1 Terms and definitions .8
3.2 Abbreviations .9
4 Environmental sustainability . 10
4.1 General . 10
4.2 Life cycle assessment . 10
4.3 Data centre boundaries . 11
5 Recommended practices for processes . 12
6 Recommended practices for source energy mix and water . 14
6.1 General . 14
6.2 New facilities . 14
6.3 Existing facilities . 15
7 Recommended practices for embodied impact of ICT equipment . 16
8 Recommended practices for embodied impact of mechanical and electrical systems . 18
8.1 New facilities . 18
8.2 Existing facilities . 19
Annex A (informative) Examples of simplified LCA metrics . 20
A.1 Direct Material Input of a Data Centre (DC-DMI) . 20
A.2 Data Centre Cumulative Energy Demand (DC-CED) . 20
A.3 Data Centre Carbon Footprint (DC-CF) . 21
A.4 Support, data and further information . 21
Bibliography . 22
European foreword
This document (CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021) was prepared by CLC/TC 215, "Electrotechnical aspects of
telecommunication equipment".
This document supersedes CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2019.
CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2019:
a) addition of the following new practices: 5.8, 7.10 and 8.1.4;
b) update of practices 6.2.1 and 6.3.2;
c) inclusion of practices CLC/TR 50600-99-1:2020, 7.2.1.2 as practice 5.9 and
CLC/TR 50600-99-1:2020, 7.1.4 as 6.2.3 (with existing practices renumbered).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a Standardization Request given to CENELEC by the
European Commission and the European Free Trade Association.
Regarding the structure of the EN 50600 series, see the Introduction.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national committee. A
complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CENELEC website.
Introduction
The unrestricted access to internet-based information demanded by the information society has led to
an exponential growth of both internet traffic and the volume of stored/retrieved data. Data centres are
housing and supporting the information technology and network telecommunications equipment for data
processing, data storage and data transport. They are required both by network operators (delivering
those services to customer premises) and by enterprises within those customer premises.
Data centres usually provide modular, scalable and flexible facilities and infrastructures to easily
accommodate the rapidly changing requirements of the market. In addition, energy consumption of data
centres has become critical both from an environmental point of view (reduction of environmental
footprint) and with respect to economical considerations (cost of energy) for the data centre operator.
The implementation of data centres varies in terms of:
a) purpose (enterprise, co-location, co-hosting or network operator facilities);
b) security level;
c) physical size;
d) accommodation (mobile, temporary and permanent constructions).
The needs of data centres also vary in terms of availability of service, the provision of security and the
objectives for energy efficiency. These needs and objectives influence the design of data centres in
terms of building construction, power distribution, environmental control, telecommunications cabling
and physical security as well as the operation of the data centre. Effective management and operational
information is important in order to monitor achievement of the defined needs and objectives.
Recognizing the substantial resource consumption, particularly of energy, of larger data centres, it is
also important to provide tools for the assessment of that consumption both in terms of overall value
and of source mix and to provide Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate trends and drive
performance improvements.
At the time of publication of this document, the EN 50600 series is designed as a framework of
standards, technical specifications and technical reports covering the design, the operation and
management, the key performance indicators for energy efficient operation of the data centre as well as
a data centre maturity model.
The EN 50600-2 series defines the requirements for the data centre design.
The EN 50600-3 series defines the requirements for the operation and the management of the data
centre.
The EN 50600-4 series defines the key performance indicators for the data centre.
The CLC/TS 50600-5 series defines the data centre maturity model requirements and
recommendations.
The CLC/TR 50600-99-X Technical Reports cover recommended practices and guidance for specific
topics around data centre operation and design.
This series of documents specifies requirements and recommendations to support the various parties
involved in the design, planning, procurement, integration, installation, operation and maintenance of
facilities and infrastructures within data centres. These parties include:
1) owners, operators, facility managers, ICT managers, project managers, main contractors;
2) consulting engineers, architects, building designers and builders, system and installation designers,
auditors, test and commissioning agents;
3) facility and infrastructure integrators, suppliers of equipment;
4) installers, maintainers.
At the time of publication of this document, the EN 50600 series will comprise the following standards
and documents:
EN 50600-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 1: General
concepts;
EN 50600-2-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-1: Building
construction
EN 50600-2-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-2: Power
supply and distribution
EN 50600-2-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-3:
Environmental control
EN 50600-2-4, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-4:
Telecommunications cabling infrastructure
EN 50600-2-5, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-5: Security
systems
EN 50600-3-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 3-1:
Management and operational information
EN 50600-4-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-1: Overview
of and general requirements for key performance indicators
EN 50600-4-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-2: Power
Usage Effectiveness
EN 50600-4-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-3:
Renewable Energy Factor
EN 50600-4-6, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-6: Energy
Reuse Factor
EN 50600-4-7, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 4-7: Cooling
Efficiency Ratio
CLC/TS 50600-2-10: Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 2-10:
Earthquake risk and impact analysis
CLC/TR 50600-99-1, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-1:
Recommended practices for energy management
CLC/TR 50600-99-2, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-2:
Recommended practices for environmental sustainability
CLC/TR 50600-99-3, Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures — Part 99-3:
Guidance to the application of EN 50600 series
The inter-relationship of the documents within the EN 50600 series is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 — Schematic relationship between the EN 50600 series of documents
EN 50600-2-X documents specify requirements and recommendations for particular facilities and
infrastructures to support the relevant classification for “availability”, “physical security” and “energy
efficiency enablement” selected from EN 50600-1.
EN 50600-3-X documents specify requirements and recommendations for data centre operations,
processes and management.
EN 50600-4-X documents specify requirements and recommendations for key performance indicators
(KPIs) used to assess and improve the resource usage efficiency and effectiveness, respectively, of a
data centre.
This document is a compilation of recommended practices for improving the environmental sustainability
of data centres.
This document considers that environmental sustainability of a data centre comprises three key areas:
— energy use;
— embodied impact of information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and mechanical
and electrical systems;
— source energy mix of the above (i.e. amount of renewable content).
The recommended practices for improving the environmental sustainability of data centres relating to
operational energy use of a data centre (i.e. reductions
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