The Cisco Nexus Dashboard offers Cisco customers visibility into their tech carbon footprint, leveraging Electricity Maps’ API.
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THE CHALLENGE
With increasing attention on the energy demand of data centers, there is a growing need to understand the environmental footprint of these operations. Emission factors vary by location and even by hour, making it challenging to evaluate the environmental footprint of IT equipment and effectively report Scope 2 emissions.
Achieving this requires granular, real-time data that captures power consumption, electricity sources, and emission factors — information that is often difficult to obtain across geographically dispersed networks.
THE SOLUTION
Cisco integrates sustainability insights directly into its Nexus Dashboard, bringing visibility to the energy footprint of its customers’ data center usage. Electricity Maps API delivers data for Cisco's Sustainability Report within the dashboard, helping their customers monitor, predict, and improve their network’s energy usage, its related carbon emissions, and its total energy cost. Electricity Maps' API is integrated with Cisco’s device usage metrics to deliver an actionable analysis of the electricity consumption across multiple data centers.
The report allows a deep analysis, including total or data center specific electricity consumption and emissions, the proportion of electricity derived from renewable sources, as well as the power mix used in operations. With this tool, Cisco’s customers can better understand and report their data center emissions. It also enables them to reduce energy costs and align their network operations with broader sustainability objectives.
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