The demand for a genuine globally consistent data centre standard has resulted in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 WG3 adopting the European EN 50600 standard as the basis for a new international standard designated as ISO/IEC 22237. The initial documents were published and made available from ISO as the first editions of the ISO/IEC TS 22237 series based on EN 50600. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 WG3 has since been devloping the original TS documents into full international standards, which are now largely published as full ISO/IEC Data Centre Standards.
It should be noted that the ISO/IEC TS 22237 documents were originally based on a direct copies of the EN50600 documents with exactly the same content and title, and were commented on and refined by all participating national standards bodies with membership of ISO.
This has resulted in the publication of full ISO/IEC Standards, rather than the original Technical Specifications. The work on this commenced from the first publication of the TS documents and remains ongoing with new documents are being approved for publication periodically. Most of the series is now completed and additional documents are being added.
Comments from the development of the ISO/IEC 22237 standard are being passed back to the European committee responsible for ongoing development of the EN 50600 standard to be incorporated into revised documents if appropriate. EN 50600 itself is a growing series of Data Centre Standards which is being continually updated and improved.
Currently the following ISO/IEC Technical Specifications have been published as elements of the 22237 series;
ISO/IEC TS 22237 Information technology — Data centre facilities and infrastructures
ISO/IEC 22237-1:2021 Part 1: General concepts
ISO/IEC 22237-2:2024 Part 2: Building construction
ISO/IEC 22237-3:2021 Part 3: Power distribution
ISO/IEC 22237-4:2021 Part 4: Environmental control
ISO/IEC TS 22237-5:2018 Part 5: Telecommunications cabling infrastructure
ISO/IEC 22237-6:2024 Part 6: Security systems
ISO/IEC TS 22237-7:2018 Part 7: Management and operational information
ISO/IEC TS 22237-30:2021 Part 30: Earthquake risk and impact analysis
ISO/IEC TS 22237-31:2023 Part 31: Key performance indicators for resilience
Additional International ISO Standards for Data Centres beyond the ISO/IEC 22237 series are:
ISO/IEC TR 30133:2023 Data centres. Practices for resource-efficient data centres
ISO/IEC 21836:2020 Data centres. Server Energy Effectiveness Metric (SEEM)
ISO/IEC 23544:2021 Data centres. Application Platform Energy Effectiveness (APEE)
Over time it is highly likely that more and more data centres will be referencing the ISO/IEC series of standards as a global reference for both design and operational benchmarking as well as marketing purposes.