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REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Streamline sustainability compliance reporting

Simplify and automate the collection, analysis, and reporting of sustainability data to meet evolving regulatory requirements. Gain full transparency across your operations, fulfill audit-ready compliance, and turn reporting into actionable insights that improve efficiency and reduce costs.

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Sustainability KPI for Data Centers Compliance Reporting

Challenge

Data center operators face growing pressure to report on sustainability performance across multiple frameworks and regulations, often without a single, unified standard. At the same time, data is siloed across systems, making reporting manual, inconsistent, and difficult to scale. Ensuring accuracy, transparency, and auditability becomes a complex and time-consuming task.

Solution

Siemens connects operational systems to create a unified, reliable data foundation for sustainability reporting. By streamlining data collection, automating KPI tracking, and aligning metrics with recognized standards, operators can generate consistent, audit-ready reports, while gaining insights to improve efficiency and reduce resource consumption.

Bridge sustainability compliance with daily operations

Compliance doesn’t start with a report. It starts on the operations floor. Energy, cooling, water, and IT systems continuously generate data, but when these systems are disconnected, reporting becomes manual, fragmented, and difficult to trust. By integrating operational technology such as EPMS and BMS into a unified platform, data center operators create a seamless link between daily operations and sustainability reporting. This enables continuous KPI tracking, transparent dashboards, and streamlined reporting - turning compliance from a reactive task into an integrated, data-driven process. As data volumes grow, AI-enabled analytics can further support this process by identifying anomalies, highlighting inconsistencies, and improving the reliability and efficiency of reporting workflows.

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Create audit-ready reports

Generate transparent, traceable sustainability reports aligned with key frameworks such as EED, CSRD, and ISO standards. Maintain confidence in your data through structured, consistent, and verifiable reporting processes.

Automate reporting workflows

Automate data collection, KPI calculation, and reporting workflows to significantly reduce manual work, minimize errors, and free up resources for higher-value sustainability and operations tasks.

Improve efficiency and reduce OPEX

Use sustainability and energy data not only for compliance but also to identify inefficiencies, optimize resource consumption, and reduce operational costs across facilities.

Break operational data silos

Connect previously siloed systems such as BMS, EPMS, and IoT-enabled infrastructure into a single, consistent data foundation - enabling a complete and reliable view of operational performance.

Enable scalable, multi-site reporting

Standardize sustainability data across regions and facilities to support consistent reporting structures, regardless of geography or regulatory differences.

Strengthen decision-making

Measure the impact of sustainability initiatives to validate ROI and meaningful insights that support better planning, investment decisions, and long-term sustainability strategies.

How to get started

Implement streamlined sustainability reporting with Siemens by connecting operational systems, establishing a reliable data foundation and leveraging digital tools to ensure transparent, scalable and audit-ready compliance reporting across your data center portfolio.

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Define your reporting strategy

Work with our experts to assess your data landscape, operational systems, and sustainability reporting needs. This step focuses on understanding what data is available today, where gaps exist across your infrastructure systems, and which compliance requirements apply to your organization.

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Set reporting framework and KPIs

Develop a structured approach to sustainability reporting aligned with relevant standards such as EED, CSRD and ISO/IEC 30134. This includes defining the KPIs, data structures and reporting logic needed to ensure consistent, comparable and scalable sustainability reporting across sites.

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Deploy integrated data systems

Integrate operational systems such as BMS, EPMS and IoT-enabled infrastructure to build a unified data foundation. Our solutions, including Desigo CC, SENTRON Powermanager, and Building X, support data aggregation, standardization, and visualization for automated reporting processes.

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Optimize reporting continuously

Use real-time dashboards, analytics and AI-supported insights to maintain ongoing transparency and improve data quality over time. This enables continuous refinement of reporting processes, improved decision-making and alignment between operational performance and sustainability objectives.

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