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- Data center meta-data, such as its name and location.
- Data center activity metrics, such as the number of U-racks of servers or the amount of CPU compute units, storage, and bandwidth provided during a time period.
- Utility bills for the data center.
- Solar panels energy generated from the inverter. While this should be netted out from the utility bill, it may still be useful to have this information because it measures how much renewable energy the data center is generating and using onsite. All else equal, a data center which gets its energy from onsite renewables is better than one that gets all its energy from utilities and then offsets with REC's. This is because onsite renewables makes the data center more resilient in case of utility shutoffs, and also because it directly reduces the emissions from the data center's energy use at the exact location of use.
- CO2 emissions of the utilities, obtained from the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) of the EPA.
- Renewable Energy Certificates purchased and retired by the data center.
- Carbon offsets purchased by the data center.
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