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Sobering Financial and Environmental Statistics - Computing

Posted by: John Savageau in IT efficiency, greenhouse gas, cloud computing, carbon dioxide on Mar 22, 2009

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While researching some electricity and power issues for a data center project, I stumbled over a couple of statistics that may keep me up tonight.

The first deals with efficiency of servers within large organizations.  This is from a Forbes article "Servers: Why Thrifty Isn't Nifty." (11 Aug 2008).

"A rule of thumb for organizations with 5000 servers is that 30 percent of them are technologically obsolete - that's 1500 servers that could be unplugged with little or no effect.

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