Sustainability Metric Reporting on IT Infrastructure at the Click of a Button with EcoStruxure IT

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I am thrilled to introduce new model based, automated sustainability metric reporting features within our award-winning EcoStruxure IT DCIM software. All EcoStruxure IT users now have access to a new set of reporting capabilities, which traditionally had required deep technical understanding and manual data calculation methods.

Sustainability Metric Reporting on IT Infrastructure at the Click of a Button with EcoStruxure IT DCIM. The new capabilities go beyond the EED-required metrics, ensuring customers can measure their data center’s real-time and historical energy performance data against all of the advanced reporting metrics specified within Schneider Electric’s White Paper 67. The Guide to Environmental Sustainability Metrics for Data Centers was released last year and it has become an industry go-to for sustainability reporting.

EcoStruxure IT software enables owners and operators to measure and report data center performance based on historical data and trends analysis, combining it with AI and real-time monitoring to turn it into actionable insights for improved sustainability. With the new download function, organizations can quickly quantify and report, at the click of a button – removing manual tasks and making it faster and easier to harness the power of data to reduce the environmental impact of their data centers.

A new era for Green IT

EcoStruxure IT has been tested and adopted by many organizations, including our own. In 2021, Schneider Electric released its Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSIs), publicizing the company’s sustainability commitments. Aligning with the SSI purpose, Schneider Electric’s CIO Elizabeth Hackenson kickstarted the company’s Green IT program – a sustainable, enterprise IT initiative that would identify new and intelligent decarbonization pathways to help the program achieve its objective of at least a 5% annual IT emissions reduction.

As part of the program, Schneider Electric utilized EcoStruxure IT software, which was deployed across more than 140 key sites globally to improve resiliency and security of its IT operations. Through Green IT, it became apparent that new capabilities within EcoStruxure IT could also be leveraged for greater sustainability, allowing Schneider Electric to dramatically improve the visibility of its IT energy consumption. By utilizing the insights from EcoStruxure IT, they were able to witness a 30% energy consumption reduction in H2 ’23 versus H1 ’23 in its Lexington, Kentucky, smart factory.

“Through the use of EcoStruxure IT, we have continued to make significant progress in our mission to reduce our IT energy consumption and environmental impact, and to help the company progress its sustainability objectives,” said Hackenson. “We’re now making those benefits readily available to customers globally.”

Discover the DCIM evolution with EcoStruxure IT

The new sustainability reporting metrics are another significant step toward our DCIM 3.0 vision as we capitalize on 20 years of sustainability, regulatory, data center, and software development expertise to meet these new challenges. To learn more about EcoStruxure IT’s new sustainability features and how they could help your organization, visit our website. And check out Alison Matte’s blog on the growing web of sustainability regulations facing the data center industry.