Lower energy spend. Carbon targets met. Savings you can prove.
Energy is one of the largest operating costs in any data centre or cloud estate, and the pressure to cut it, and the carbon that comes with it, keeps rising. PWRwise gives engineers and planners the trusted intelligence to act on that pressure, and gives finance and sustainability teams the evidence that it worked.
Efficiency has stalled while demand and scrutiny grow
The industry's easy wins have been taken. What remains is hidden in the detail: individual cooling units, idle servers, unused capacity and unreliable data.
Average data centre PUE, essentially unchanged for six years1
of servers found "comatose": powered on but doing no useful work for six months or more2
IT load above which EU data centres must report energy and sustainability KPIs every year3
growth projected in US data centre electricity use, from 176 TWh (2023) to 325–580 TWh by 20284
From monitoring to intelligence
Most operators already have a BMS, a DCIM tool and cloud consoles. They show what is happening; they rarely say what it means, what it costs or what to do.
| Area | Typical today | With PWRwise |
|---|---|---|
| Data | Siloed by vendor and system; bad readings flow straight into reports | One platform for every vendor, with every reading authenticated and quality-scored |
| Finding waste | Spotted in an annual audit or after a failure, often months later | Anomalies flagged within hours against expected behaviour for the current workload |
| Alerts | Threshold alarms with no cause, cost or owner; alert fatigue | Root cause, owner, deadline and £ impact on every alert |
| Compute utilisation | Idle servers and oversized cloud instances go unnoticed | Utilisation tied to energy and cost, with consolidation and rightsizing recommendations |
| Capacity planning | Spreadsheets and rules of thumb; surprises force emergency spend | Validated forecasts weeks ahead, with what-if scenarios across sites |
| Carbon reporting | Estimates and supplier summaries assembled by hand | Measured Scope 2 (location and market-based) with an audit trail to the meter |
| On-premise and cloud | Managed by different teams with different numbers | One view of energy, cost and carbon across halls, colocation and cloud |
How the intelligence layer moves the numbers that matter
Engineers and planners use PWRwise to hit three linked goals. Each saving in one usually helps the other two.
Reduce energy spending
Cut the kilowatt-hours that don't do useful work, and pay less for the ones that do.
- Detect overcooling and drifting equipment early
- Trace leakage from grid to IT, device by device
- Consolidate idle servers and rightsize cloud instances
- Shift flexible load to cheaper tariff windows
Reach carbon targets
Know your real emissions, then reduce them where it counts most.
- Measured Scope 2, location- and market-based
- Carbon per site, hall and workload (CUE)
- Shift batch work to low-carbon grids and hours
- Track renewable certificates against consumption
Drive cost savings
Spend capital and operating budget only where the data says it's needed.
- Defer new capacity by reclaiming stranded power
- Avoid emergency procurement with early warnings
- Right-size colocation and cloud commitments
- Prioritise fixes by £ value, not by who shouts loudest
Example findings are illustrative, from the PWRwise simulation of a three-site operator.
What could better intelligence be worth to you?
Enter a few figures about one site. Adjust the improvement assumptions to match your own view; a portfolio assessment replaces them with your real data.
Your site
Approximate figures are fine.
Today
Annual energy, cost and emissions for this site
An indicative estimate, not a quote. Assumes constant load over 8,760 hours per year. Actual results depend on your site, contracts and the findings of an assessment.
Turn your energy data into decisions
Book a portfolio assessment and we'll show you where the savings are, what they're worth, and who should act on them.