Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short
Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment
Europe needs a policy framework that integrates water andenergy efficiency if it wants to keep growing datacenter capacity to supportits AI and cloud computing ambitions.
This is the argument in a report, "Scale and Secure: PoweringEurope's Digital Sovereignty," which asserts that progress will depend not so much on access to the right silicon as on water and energy constraints.
Grundfos, the Danish firm behind the report, describes itself as a provider of energy-efficient water solutions so has some skin in this game.
Datacenters are becoming strategic infrastructure, it says, but their development intersects with energy security, waterresilience, industrial policy, urban planning, and technological sovereignty concerns.
According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load isabout 10 GW today, and is expected to rise to...
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