ENTR Lot 9: Enterprise servers

Last updated: 11 November 2019

Ecodesign requirements

Ecodesign requirements for enterprise services was accepted September 17, 2018, and will take force March 1, 2020. The requirements include:

Power supply requirements (tightened January 1, 2023)
Resource efficiency requirements (tightened March 1, 2021)
Requierements for servers in active work and idle mood
Information requirements

Products covered by the eco design requirements include servers and web-based data storage products. Exceptions apply to servers designed for embedded applications, servers classified as single servers according to Regulation (EU) No 617/2013, servers with more than four processor sockets, server equipment, large servers, fully fault tolerant servers, network servers, small data storage products, large data storage products.

Date	Process	Key documents
2019-03-18	Final report	Ecodesign requirements (pdf)
2015-07	Product study report	Task 1 (pdf) Task 2 (pdf) Task 3 (pdf) Task 4 (pdf) Task 5 (pdf) Task 6 (pdf) Task 7 (pdf)
2013-06	Product study launched

Ongoing

A revision of the ecodesign requirements should be made no later than March 2022 due to technological development in the field.

Regulations in force

Ecodesign requirements (pdf).

Lot number

This product study belongs to Lot number ENTR Lot 9.

The Ecodesign Calendar

05–08 Jul 2023: The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) will be holding its next conference in Wageningen, Netherlands from July 5-8, 2023. I am hoping to put together a session (possibly more than one) on the theme of “The Wellbeing Economy: Pathway to Consumption Sufficiency and a Post-Growth Economy?”

Springer's Energy EfficiencyJournal

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