EU compliance reports

An EU compliance report states your data centre's efficiency in the terms the Energy Efficiency Directive uses: a PUE and a WUE figure, each placed on an A–G scale. It is a separate thing from a simulation — there are no targets and nothing is compared. You are describing one data centre as it stands.

Compliance is a module. If you do not see it in the navigation, your organisation does not have it enabled; ask your administrator or get in touch.

Building a report

1. Create the report. Name it, optionally record the customer and reference it is being prepared for — these are searchable from the report list and appear on the PDF cover, as they do for simulations — and set its location. The country list and the regions within each country come from our catalogue, so pick from the list rather than typing — the region has to be a code the compliance service recognises.
2. Add your servers. Either import them from a CSV or add lines by hand. This works exactly as a simulation specification does, including the matching and the grades, so anything you already know about that screen applies here. After a CSV import you land on a progress screen while the file is matched against the catalogue — a large estate takes a few minutes — and then, exactly as with a simulation, any uncertain matches are brought to the review screen, where each one can be confirmed, corrected to an alternative, or skipped. The report cannot be run until the review is finished. If matching fails, the reason appears on the report and you can retry by editing a line or importing again; the imported servers are never lost.

3. Enter your facility figures. PUE and WUE are yours to supply. We do not measure them. Set Server utilisation (%) here too — it drives ITEU and the average power that the energy, carbon and water figures are all built from.

   Networking share (%) and Storage share (%) are the parts of your IT load drawn by networking and dedicated storage equipment. They raise IT energy above the servers' own consumption, so leave them at 0 only if you genuinely don't measure them separately. Together they must be under 100% — the rest is the servers.

   Utilisation is taken from the best information available, server by server: a figure imported against a server is used as it stands; where a server has none, this facility average stands in; and where neither exists, that server is calculated at 25%. Importing a utilisation column for the servers you have measured and setting this average for the rest gives the most accurate result.

   Accelerators work the same way, through their own gpu_utilisation column and GPU utilisation (%) figure. 4. Run it. One credit, however many servers are in the estate. See Credits and billing.

A run takes a few minutes. The page follows it and takes you to the results when it finishes; you do not have to wait on it.

Reading the results

Each metric is shown three ways: the measured value, the grade it earns, and its position on the A–G scale, with the two scales facing each other as they do on the printed label. The bands and thresholds are the scheme's, not ours.

PUE and WUE are not validated

Both figures are the ones you entered. We place them on the scale and grade them, but we do not verify them, and the facility and total energy figures shown alongside are estimates derived from the PUE you gave us. The report is only as good as those two numbers.

Server analysis

Below the grades, every server line is listed with its own efficiency rating — the same A–F rating a simulation shows — alongside the average power and annual energy the compliance service calculated for it.

Refresh Ratings asks for any grades that are missing or out of date. It queues the request rather than waiting for it, so reload the report a minute or so later to see them.

The last column says what the catalogue made of each line. Server not in catalogue or CPU not in catalogue means that line could not be rated, and so contributed nothing to ITEE, power or water. Those lines still count toward your totals; they are listed rather than hidden precisely because they are the ones worth correcting. Fixing a match on the report's server list and running again will bring them in — see Specifications.

Every run is kept. The Run History panel lists each attempt, and opening one shows that run's own results — useful when a figure has been corrected and you want to see what changed.

The label

View Label renders the results in the layout of the EU data centre label — the identity block, the two grade scales, and the voluntary sustainability features.

Some boxes on it are empty, shown as —. Those are fields the label defines that the platform does not yet collect: the type and size category of the data centre, the reporting period, the date it entered operation, the renewable energy breakdown, waste heat reuse, and grid services. They are left blank on purpose. We would rather show you the gap than fill a regulatory document with a plausible guess, and the list is what we are working through.

The PDF

Download PDF produces the report as a document. Customise controls what goes in it — which sections appear, whether your own branding is applied, and the cover and summary text — in the same way as simulation reports.