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Minister welcomes EU data storage regulations

20/11/2008

The minister for sustainable development and energy innovation, Lord Hunt, has welcomed the launch of the EU's code of conduct for data centres and data storage, saying that it could help the IT industry play its part in tackling climate change.

Lord Hunt said that the decisions businesses made played a key role in reducing the emissions responsible for climate change.

He added: "By signing up to this new code of conduct companies can save energy and save money too, which goes to show that what's good for the environment is good for business."

Data centres, which can be used for managed hosting, as well as backing up data for the purposes of business continuity, are responsible for almost three per cent of the UK's electricity usage, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Defra calculates that this proportion will double by 2020, as business continuity becomes more important to businesses.

Earlier this week several large organisations, including Credit Suisse and the London School of Economics, announced they had signed agreements to use data centres for business continuity.

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