CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight

The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body has put forward recommendations for the EU's Water Resilience Strategy, perhaps mindful that datacenters are perceived as hugely wasteful of precious water resources.

My take on this is that maybe they are not moving as fast as the EU would want, given Europe is now more prone to drought conditions in the future due to climate change..

CISPE called for harmonization across sectors, and said investment is required to deliver effective water resilience. It also warned that burdensome regulatory demands might see operators choose to build elsewhere instead.

Styling itself as the voice of the EU's cloud sector, the consortium claims its views offer valuable insight from businesses in the region to support a sustainable European economy.

Water scarcity, it says, is rapidly becoming a major challenge and the group strongly supports the European Commission's commitments to ...