Supply chain / Lifecycle evidence
Server component reuse and its practical constraints
A concrete inspectable guidance starting point for stage10, not completion of certified refurbishment or secondary-GPU coverage.
- Lifecycle stage
- 10: Repair, upgrade and reuse
- Evidence kind
- Historical technical guidance
- Publisher
- European Commission Joint Research Centre
- Source
- Development of European Green Public Procurement Criteria for Data Centres: Preliminary Report
- Document reference
- JRC118550; EUR 29945 EN; doi:10.2760/327087
- Creators
- Felice Alfieri; Nicholas Dodd; Miguel Gama-Caldas; Oliver Wolf; Larisa Maya-Drysdale; Baijia Huang; Jan Viegand; Sophia Flucker; Robert Tozer; Beth Whitehead; Fiona Brocklehurst
- Source publication
- 2019 (year only; month and day unknown)
- Source update
- Unknown
- Event date
- Unknown
- Retrieved at
- Unknown
- Source checked
- 2026-10-31
- Independently reviewed
- 2026-10-31T23:00:35.770Z
- Immutable source version
- Unknown
What the inspected source supports
- The JRC report describes harvesting and testing reusable server components before the remaining parts enter waste treatment. Printed page 94, section 9.4; PDF page 95; original source.
- Its reuse discussion identifies firmware access and storage data deletion as constraints. Printed page 99, section 9.8; PDF page 100; original source.
What remains unestablished
Historical technical guidance and synthesis, not an audited provider process, GPU inventory, brokerage eligibility, certification or measured circularity outcome. No component percentages, refresh periods, benefit rates, prices or present availability are admitted.
Source and reuse scope
Alfieri et al. (2019), Development of European Green Public Procurement Criteria for Data Centres: Preliminary Report, JRC118550, © European Union 2019, CC BY 4.0. Original concise account by ComputeFinder; no endorsement. Source supplied without warranty.
Minimal original attributed facts and an ordinary link. The report's express licence is recorded for this document only. No third-party charts, photographs, datasets, vendor examples or protected source passages are reproduced.
EU-owned report content in sections 9.4 and 9.8 only; third-party material excluded.
CC BY 4.0; licence legal code. CC BY 4.0 for EU-owned report content, except where otherwise noted PDF page 2, legal notice; express EU 2019 CC BY4.0 grant with third-party material exclusion
Independent source-review scope
Two original attributed summary facts and ordinary source link; report-specific EU-owned CC BY 4.0 material only.
The recorded source/use review is separate from implementation, publication and current compliance.
How we label evidence
- Official source the body that made the rule or the data says so
- Two sources agree independent sources match
- One source, not confirmed a single report or claim
- Watching a signal, not shown as a fact