Live data centre dashboard
Europe’s grid, hour by hour: when and where to run your load
Carbon intensity, day-ahead power prices and the cheapest, cleanest hours for flexible compute across the main European data-centre markets. Built for the people who schedule workloads, report grid emissions and choose sites.
Europe right now
Carbon intensity and day-ahead price in each market this hour. Select a country to follow it down the page.
Current figures by market
A plain-text copy of the figures behind the dashboard. The interactive version below replaces it once it has loaded.
| Market | Carbon intensity, g CO2e/kWh | Day-ahead price, EUR/MWh | Renewable share, % | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 310 | 138.9 | 64 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:19 CEST |
| United Kingdom | 89 | 147.0 | 68 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:59 CEST |
| France | 40 | 155.8 | 22 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:39 CEST |
| Netherlands | 374 | 138.9 | 43 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:09 CEST |
| Ireland | 441 | 148.9 | 20 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:59 CEST |
| Italy (North) | 402 | 199.1 | 14 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:59 CEST |
| Spain | 173 | 114.1 | 45 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:09 CEST |
| Poland | 519 | 114.8 | 38 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:19 CEST |
| Belgium | 171 | 165.3 | 64 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:39 CEST |
| Austria | 213 | 175.0 | 61 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:09 CEST |
| Switzerland | 34 | 191.0 | 54 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:19 CEST |
| Norway (NO2) | 24 | 138.7 | 100 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:59 CEST |
| Sweden (SE3) | 49 | 150.6 | 31 | 13 Oct 2026, 10:59 CEST |
| Denmark (DK1) | 103 | 134.8 | 93 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:19 CEST |
| Finland | 90 | 194.6 | 66 | 13 Oct 2026, 11:09 CEST |
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The next 48 hours
Each bar is an hour. Height is the day-ahead price, colour is carbon intensity, and the outlined block is the best four-hour window still ahead.
Best hours to run flexible compute
Training runs, batch jobs, backups and re-indexing can move. This is how much carbon and money the best four hours save against the rest of the horizon.
Rules and efficiency
The dates that decide your reporting year, and where a site’s PUE sits against the Commission’s first data.
Great Britain, region by region
The national figure hides a wide spread. Forecast intensity per distribution region, cleanest first.
Why the spread matters
Scottish regions running on wind and hydro sit near zero while the south of England leans on gas and imports. A site in the same country can report very different location-based emissions depending on the region it draws from.
One market at a time
Each market has its own page: the latest hour, an hour-by-hour table in local time, the best window for flexible compute and how it compares with the rest of Europe.
Notes
- Carbon intensity is estimated from each market’s generation by fuel. Forward hours follow the renewables forecast.
- Prices are day-ahead wholesale, not what a site pays.
- Hours are Central European time. Great Britain regions are half-hour forecasts.
- The PUE benchmark shows average PUE per size class from the first EED reporting round.
- The Netherlands reads high around midday, as Dutch solar output is under-reported.
- Ireland shows carbon only, with no forward hours.
- “Delayed” marks a series that missed its last refresh.
Data: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), national system operators and the European Commission.
ScienceShot dataset, checked 13 Oct 2026. How we build it: Method and standards.