Bitkom: Digitization helps with climate • Table.Briefings

German companies are often more ambitious than the German government when it comes to climate targets. This was the result of a representative survey by the digital association Bitkom. However, when it comes to the question of climate neutrality of data centers, things look somewhat different, even though they offer a great deal of potential for savings.

The digital association Bitkom called on German policymakers to ensure a level playing field for data centers in the EU. „We would like to see a level playing field within the EU so that companies do not outsource their new data centers to neighboring countries for cost reasons,“ Bitkom CEO Bernhard Rohleder said on Wednesday when presenting a representative survey of 500 German companies on the topic of digitization and climate protection. Rohleder pointed out that the price of electricity still accounts for around 50 percent of the total expenditure on a data center.

Bitkom: Digitization helps with climate protection

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