Challenges

Due to diminishing fossil energy resources, rising energy prices and increased public sensitivity to environmental issues, the efficient use of energy is more important today than ever before, especially for data centers which account for around 2% of the world’s total energy consumption and are expected overtake the carbon emissions of the airline industry by 2020.

With an extensive research program in green technologies, integrated energy management and control systems, “best in class” power saving technologies and efficient building systems, Siemens is at the forefront of reducing the global carbon footprint and improving energy efficiency.

Siemens as a company is highly committed to an efficient and sustainable operation and sets itself high environmental goals. We are committed to reduce our customers' CO₂ emissions by 300 million tons annually and improve our own CO₂ and water efficiency by 20% by fiscal 2011.

Renewable energy

Siemens is dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy generation. We develop renewable technologies and products that include the manufacturing of the world’s most efficient turbines in power stations, wind turbines and photovoltaic panels.  Siemens offers consistent and reliable technologies all the way from power generation to optimizing energy efficiency in data center facilities. 

It is crucial for data centers to have a constant power supply. Therefore they need highly reliable power sources. However what happens if the power source is from renewable energy?. The “Siemens Multifunctional Power Link” (SIPLINK) provides data centers with the unique opportunity to obtain energy from renewable sources, as well as their standard grid supply connection. Its special Y-circuit ensures a consistent power supply to all critical infrastructure applications in case of a power outage in one network without any increase in short-circuit power. SIPLINK allows you to safely obtain energy from renewable sources and helps you to make your data center green.

Energy management

In order to keep energy consumption and therefore the carbon footprint of a data center as small as possible, it is important to combine intelligent power management with energy efficient components.

Siemens offers energy management solutions for all customer requirements; from standard power monitoring to complete, integrated energy management with transparent visualization of consumption, originator-based allocation and automatic load management. These solutions provide all the measures needed to implement or retain an energy efficient operation of a data center facility.

Efficient lighting solutions

Not only data center specific applications play a role in creating a green data center, in fact, standard applications like building design or lighting also support power reductions considerably. Siemens is a pioneer in designing and implementing intelligent and energy efficient lighting, offering a broad range of highly sophisticated products that provide your data center with the right amount of light at the right time.

As a world-leading lighting manufacturer, all the Siemens lighting solutions aim to achieve the maximum light from the smallest possible energy usage, while reducing room cooling costs due to less heat emission.

Green data center design

Siemens is continually setting new standards worldwide for building energy efficiency with intelligent, integrated technologies for data centers. Our innovative solutions, systems, products, and services achieve an optimal balance of building performance, comfort and sustainability in order to maximize efficiency in your data center and conform with the strictest green building norms (LEED, BREEAM, EN 15232).