28 April 2026, DCpedia, Marco Verzijl

Article: The EED reporting obligation: what does it really deliver? (machine translated from Dutch)

Since 2024, the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) has required
data centers above 500 kW to report annually on energy consumption,
water use, PUE and residual heat utilization. The first results are
disappointing: only 36% of European data centers reported, data quality
is variable and crucial metrics such as IT utilization, GPU idle
consumption and water consumption per AI run are completely missing.
Enforcement is actually non-existent.