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This Report was commissioned by the Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) Program, a joint initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments and the New Zealand Government. Its purpose was to investigate and recommend suitable policy options to improve the energy efficiency of data centres in Australia and New Zealand.

The full report includes:

1. Development of the definition of a data centre;
2. Modelled projections of trends in numbers of data centres, their energy consumption and growth;
3. A review of energy efficiency policies applicable to data centres and identification of the challenges to achieving such energy efficiency improvement; and
4. Recommendations for the most suitable courses of action, and a proposed timetable for their introduction.