Data centres, first green light in the House in sight
The arrival in the Chamber of Montecitorio for approval at first reading of the unified text framing the data processing centres should take place within 'a few weeks', assures Giulio Centemero (Lega), first signatory of one of the Pdl's before the Transport Commission
To date, Italian laws classify data centres - the key facilities of the digital economy - as mere industrial buildings. It is a definition that is 'certainly outdated, also because all our sensitive data pass through the data centres: from digital health to digital identity and data processing for e-commerce,' explains to Parlamento 24 Giulio Centemero (Lega), the first signatory of a bill on the subject that has become a unified text just a step away from the first go-ahead by the Chamber of Deputies.
Data centres, Centemero continues, are 'absolutely strategic structures', since 'all the information we have in the cloud' also passes through them, and 'those who control data and computing power basically hold a very important lever in their hands: we cannot forget this, indeed we must protect this type of structure,' he emphasises, predicting a rapid conclusion to the first reading of the Unified Text, currently before the Transport Committee in Montecitorio.
At the moment, he continues, 'what is called a fine tuning' of the Unified Text is underway 'from a regulatory point of view, especially from the point of view of cyber security'. A sort of 'supplementary preliminary investigation' that should be completed soon: the Chamber of Deputies' first reading approval should take place within 'a few weeks', Centemero assures.
