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5-6 March 2025, Hotel Le Plaza Brussels

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Join industry leaders as they explore innovations and strategies driving the future of sustainable data centres.



 

 

Datacloud Energy & ESG Europe Agenda

Thought-leadership that will drive your business forward

As the data centre sector continues to expand, so do the challenges around energy consumption, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Datacloud Energy & ESG Europe addresses these critical issues by bringing together the brightest minds in the industry to create real solutions. This event is a focused initiative aimed at connecting data centres, renewable energy developers, grid operators, and policymakers to collaboratively tackle power requirements and sustainability goals

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08:45
  1. Welcome from Datacloud
08:50
    • Setting the scene, outlining challenges and priorities, and establishing a blueprint for powering AI in Europe
    State of the Market Keynote: Framing the new European energy paradigm and the data centre industry
    Conference Room
    Global energy demand is forecast to increase from 27k TWh in 2024 to around TWh in 2034 (IEA), with the boom in data centres one of a number of key drivers. As governments and grids derive strategies ...
09:05
    • Setting the scene, outlining challenges and priorities, and establishing a blueprint for powering AI in Europe
    Opening Keynote: Hyperscalers, Superscalers and Megascalers: The next generation of data centre demand is here
    Conference Room
    At the Digital Infra Leaders’ Forum Europe in June 2024, a group of operator C-suite, and hyperscaler leadership, unpacked global data centre power demand forecasts, many of which vary but are consist ...
09:20
    • Setting the scene, outlining challenges and priorities, and establishing a blueprint for powering AI in Europe
    Keynote panel: How can we ensure that Europe doesn’t miss the boat on AI?
    Conference Room
    According to McKinsey Global Institute, ‘GenAI is expected to accelerate data centre power demand, potentially accounting for more than 5 percent of Europe’s total electricity consumption by 2030. Wit ...
10:10
    • Setting the scene, outlining challenges and priorities, and establishing a blueprint for powering AI in Europe
    Keynote panel: Supercharging AI: A realistic roadmap to meeting imminent GW-scale data centre power requirements
    Conference Room
    AI is the most transformational development in digital infrastructure that we have seen since the creation of the internet. It is dictating conversations in boardrooms around the world, with expectati ...
10:50
    • Setting the scene, outlining challenges and priorities, and establishing a blueprint for powering AI in Europe
    Impact Presentation: Technologies in action to meet GenAI’s power requirements
    Conference Room
11:00
  1. Morning Networking break
11:45
    • Country spotlights
    In-country focus roundtables
    Conference Room
    Interactive roundtables delving into the specific nuances of key European data centre markets. The roundtables will explore national policies influencing energy discussions, power constraints and oppo ...
12:45
  1. Networking Lunch Break
13:50
    • Sustainability & future energy for Data Centres
    Impact Presentation: Heat re-use projects in action
    Conference Room
    • Workshops
    Workshop: Setting expectations: Is nuclear power going to be a gamechanger for data centres in Europe?
    Workshop Room
    Modern nuclear reactors promise stable, zerocarbon power, precisely what data centre operators are searching for. However, what remains unclear is whether nuclear will be a viable solution to Europea ...
14:00
    • Sustainability & future energy for Data Centres
    Panel: How can we sustainably cool our data centres?
    Conference Room
    As advancements in more power-intensive applications and the growth of AI, data centres are packing more computing power to consolidating workloads. However traditional air-cooling methods are not kee ...
14:45
    • Sustainability & future energy for Data Centres
    Impact Presentation: Liquid cooling in action
    Conference Room
15:00
    • Sustainability & future energy for Data Centres
    Regional Focus Panel: What works in the North could work in the South: Lessons learned from sustainable infrastructure in the Nordics
    Conference Room
    Why are we seeing workloads move to the Nordics? This session gives an updated overview of data centre growth in the region, answering why businesses are moving AI and HPC workloads to the Nordics, an ...
15:40
  1. Afternoon Networking break
16:30
    • Sustainability & future energy for Data Centres
    Panel: Turning waste heat into a valuable resource for communities and businesses
    Conference Room
    In August, the EUDCA published a whitepaper claiming that ‘nearly 100% of the electricity consumed by IT equipment is dissipated as waste heat.” Over in the UK, TechUK warned earlier in 2024 that oper ...
    • Workshops
    Workshop Alternative backup solutions
    Workshop Room
    We need to develop power back up solutions that are sustainable, efficient and render diesel generators redundant. This has been talked about for several years, but progress is slow. The purpose of th ...
17:10
  1. Closing Remarks
09:00
  1. Welcome from Datacloud
09:10
    • Data centres as responsible grid citizens, Developing the relationship between grid operators and data centres
    Keynote panel: Steps to improve dialogue and collaboration between data centres and European grids
    Conference Room
    Rapid location specific load growth from data centres is creating challenges for grid operators, leading to bottlenecks and moratoriums for data centres in connecting new facilities. With different pl ...
09:50
    • Data centres as responsible grid citizens, Developing the relationship between grid operators and data centres
    Keynote panel: Data centres as an enabler of grid stability amidst the green transition
    Conference Room
    Increasing renewables penetration on European grids presents significant challenges to gridcos, requiring grid balancing solutions. Often with significant on-site generation and storage facilities, da ...
10:30
    • Data centres as responsible grid citizens, Developing the relationship between grid operators and data centres
    Joint case study - A grid interactive data centre
    Conference Room
10:50
    • Data centres as responsible grid citizens, Developing the relationship between grid operators and data centres
    Impact Presentation: Optimising your micro-grid operations
    Conference Room
    Battery energy storage systems are an enabler to supply backup power and are amongst the alternative solutions to lower costs and improve economics of BESS highlighted in this session
11:00
  1. Morning Networking break
11:50
    • Data centres as responsible grid citizens, Developing the relationship between grid operators and data centres
    Panel: European power costs, the PPA market and a move to 24/7 power matching
    Conference Room
    This panel brings in multiple expert views on how they see European power prices evolving over the coming years considering political changes and macroeconomic conditions. How can large corporates suc ...
12:20
    • Deep Dives
    Roundtable Deep Dives
    Conference Room
    Roundtable topics: Strategic and commercial: A. Rethinking redundancy: What is the path to phasing out diesel gensets? B. Data centre-gridco relations: how can we better work together? C. Excellence i ...
    • Workshops
    Workshop: Towards a blueprint for grid-interactive data centres
    Workshop Room
    Following on from the morning’s sessions, this workshop will discuss the ingredients required to accelerate the provision of grid balancing solutions by the data centre industry. What commercial model ...
13:10
  1. Networking Lunch Break
14:30
    • Policy actions and takeaways for the European data centre and energy industry
    Panel: Managing National and International reporting requirements in 2025
    Conference Room
    Regulations such as the CSRD reporting requirements and the EU taxonomy, from the energy efficiency directive aim to drive transparency and improve energy performance and reporting. However, for data ...
    • Workshops
    Strategic Workshop 2 – Evolving PPAs: New Commercial Models
    Workshop Room
15:10
    • Policy actions and takeaways for the European data centre and energy industry
    Impact presentation: Managing your reporting requirements
    Conference Room
15:20
    • Policy actions and takeaways for the European data centre and energy industry
    Closing Panel: Part 1: Moving the dial in data centre energy provision
    Conference Room
    This session outlines key milestones upcoming in the next 12 months that we are working towards as an industry. We will discuss the major takeaways from the course of the event and outline the top 3 p ...
16:00
    • Fitting the puzzle pieces together, policy & regulation, energy provision
    Closing Remarks Datacloud Energy & ESG Europe 2025
    Conference Room

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