Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is taking to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption of (a) its digital data centres and (b) Swansea estate; and how much public money is allocated to these programmes.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency decarbonisation projects are considered on the basis of their life cycle replacement and technical improvements to make systems more resilient with improved monitoring. The table below shows the projects currently anticipated in the current financial year and their estimated costs.
Project | Cost |
Cold aisle containment of data centres | £1,500,000.00 |
Electric vehicle charging points | £359,000.00 |
Sub metering projects for data centres | £160,000.00 |