Businesses building new datacentres will be forced to look for energy efficient measures to reduce power use after the renewable energy strategy published by the Department of Business Enterprise and regulatory reform (Berr) yesterday confirmed that all new commercial property must be zero carbon by 2019.
Businesses will be able to offset surplus energy use through the emissions trading scheme, but this could prove expensive.
Firms must find new and innovative ways to reduce power use in datacentres, said Butler Group analyst Sarah Burnett.
"Companies must manage information better, introduce software that uses less energy and look at virtualisation," she said.
In January, Europe's second largest web hosting company Strato announced its datacentres are to be entirely powered from renewable energy.
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