The Hamburg-based cloud provider X-Ion has connected its data center to the NADIKI Registrar and is providing server and data center information from live operations for SIEC research.
In June 2025, X-Ion connected its data center to the NADIKI Registrar. The Hamburg-based cloud and infrastructure provider transmits server and data center data from production systems, thereby supporting research within the SIEC project aimed at improving the Server Idle Energy Coefficient metric for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Since 2009, X-Ion has operated cloud infrastructure in German data centers, uses 100% green energy, and is ISO 27001 certified. Approximately 70 employees serve clients across three continents. For the SIEC project, X-Ion provides real operational data from ongoing business activities — not lab values, but measured data from daily customer support with varying load profiles.
What is transmitted
Server Data: Energy consumption and utilization of individual servers in production operation
Data Center Data: Cooling, UPS, and building technology at the site level
These data contribute to the validation of the SIEC metric — a method to make visible and measurable the unnecessary energy consumption of underutilized servers.
“We are pleased that more data centers agree to support our research with real operational data, and we thank X-Ion for the collaboration. Only with real measurement data from production operations can we develop metrics that stand up in practice.”
— Max Schulze, IDED