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Energy report benchmark

Enter one site’s figures for one reporting year and see where its PUE, ERF, WUE and renewable share sit against sites of the same size class in the official per-site register. The figures are sent only to compute the answer; nothing is stored or logged.

Site

CountryReporting year

Installed IT load kWNominal connected IT load. It sets the size class.

Energy over the yearTotal facility energy kWhAll energy the data centre used, cooling included.IT equipment energy kWhMeasured at the UPS output, or at the PDU where there is no UPS.

Reuse, renewables and waterEnergy reused outside the site kWhHeat handed to another user. Leave blank if you do not know it.Renewable energy consumed kWhGuarantees of origin, PPAs and on-site generation, each kWh counted once.Water consumed on site litresEnter 0 for a site that uses no water for cooling.

I have ERF or REF as a ratio instead

ERF ratio or %Used only when reused energy is blank.REF ratio or %Used only when renewable energy is blank.

Four indicators, one site, one year. Enter the figures, or load an example, then compare. The answer shows each indicator and where the PUE sits among peers of the same size.

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How it works

PUE is total facility energy over IT equipment energy; ERF is energy reused outside the site over total facility energy; WUE is litres of water over kWh of IT energy; REF is renewable energy consumed over total facility energy. The indicator families are EN 50600-4 and ISO/IEC 30134; the EU reporting definitions are those of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1364.
Peers are the sites of the same size class, on installed IT load, in the same country. A peer group needs at least 5 sites. Germany is the only country that publishes a per-site register today.
Register records with an implausible PUE, or an IT load not below the connected load, are left out, as the Umweltbundesamt did in its own analysis. The register’s ERF is recalculated from reused heat and total energy.
No climate correction: the register carries no climate or cooling field, so country and size class do the stratifying.
Premium adds the percentile of each indicator, the 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles of the peer group, and the same by market. See Premium

Sources: Energieeffizienzregister für Rechenzentren (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy); European Commission, EED data-centre dashboard, licensed CC BY 4.0, rounded and recalculated by ScienceShot.

ScienceShot calculation.

Cite this page

ScienceShot. (2026). Energy report benchmark [Online calculator]. https://scienceshot.com/compliance/benchmark

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