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Sustainability is becoming an ever-increasing part in the planning, designing and operation of large-scale infrastructures. In HEP this is especially relevant as accelerators that create particle beams and data-centres that analyse data use a lot of energy. Research Facility 2.0 is an EU-funded project with a vision of developing a more sustainable path for the future of research. Its remit covers both of these areas by researching: the design and use of technologies for use at future accelerators; and the approaches we can take to manage energy at support infrastructures. Both have unique challenges in terms of environmental impact. DESY is the only institution on this project looking to develop strategies for the energy and carbon management of “green” data-centres. This is important for HEP as data-centres will be an ongoing resources exploited by current and future experiments for data analysis. This talk shall show the results of some initial investigations in implementing energy management strategies at the DESY computing centre.
