CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021

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

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 12-Aug-2021
• ICS: 13.020.20 - Environmental economics. Sustainability
• ICS: 35.020 - Information technology (IT) in general
• ICS: 35.110 - Networking
• ICS: 35.160 - Microprocessor systems
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 215 - Electrotechnical aspects of telecommunication equipment
• Drafting Committee: CLC/TC 215 - Electrotechnical aspects of telecommunication equipment
• Ref Project: SIST-TP CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021 - Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 99-2: Recommended practices for environmental sustainability

Relations

• Replaces: CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2019 - Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 99-2: Recommended practices for environmental sustainability
• Effective Date: 17-Aug-2021
• Replaced By: CLC/TS 50600-5-1:2023 - Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 5-1: Maturity Model for Energy Management and Environmental Sustainability
• Effective Date: 25-Apr-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST-TP CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021
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
SIST-TP CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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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
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2021 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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CLC/TR 50600-99-2:2021 (E)
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 .
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