This document lists various statistics about the environmental impact of data centers and IT infrastructure. It notes that data centers consume massive amounts of energy and resources, for example a typical mid-sized data center uses 60 million gallons of water over 10 years. The coal used to power 70% of the world's electricity is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Adopting more sustainable IT practices such as server virtualization and storage consolidation could significantly reduce these environmental impacts and costs.

1. Sustainable IT?!
Some Facts !
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2. $2.4 billion
…amount that Google spent on
data centers in 2007
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3. $500 million
…cost of a typical Microsoft or Google
data center
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4. $21 million
…savings Cisco IT will achieve through
implementing storage virtualization
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5. 6,250
…equivalent number of homes that
could be powered by Cisco IT’s
power surplus resulting from SAN
consolidation in 2007-2008
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6. 70%
…amount of worldwide electricity
that is derived from carbon based
sources
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7. 51%
…amount of world electricity derived
from coal
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8. 10 days
…is the average frequency that China is
building a new coal burning plant
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9. 7%
…amount of embedded energy from
coal that makes it to a power outlet
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10. dirty
…coal is the number 1 contributor
to Green House Gas emissions and
the number 1 source of
atmospheric heavy metal deposition
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11. 271 exabytes
…of data stored worldwide
as of July 29, 2008
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12. 5 billion
…number of Ethernet network
connections by 2012
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13. 21%
…average server utilization in the US
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14. 35%
…average storage utilization in the US
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15. 60%
…estimated efficiency gain resulting
from aligned planning between facilities
and IT using actual power draws
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16. $145
…cost of a barrel of oil as of July 1, 2008
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17. 233%
…Saudi Arabia’s average profit margin
per $100/barrel oil
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18. 2%
…amount the IT industry contributes to
global Green House Gas emissions
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19. 2% is also what the
entire airline industry
contributes
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20. 13
…number of Cisco BU’s involved in
developing IP-based power
management solutions
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21. 25%
…publicly committed reduction goal
of Cisco’s carbon footprint from
2007 levels through 2012
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22. $185 million
…amount that Cisco paid for
electricity in 2008
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23. 0
…number of truly Green data centers
world wide unless you count all the
abacuses out there
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24. 20%
…Premium IT purchasers would
pay for a Green solution with
comparable performance
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25. 159,300
…metric tons of CO2 produced by a
mid-size data center over 10 years
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26. 60,000,000
…gallons of water used by a typical
mid-sized data center over 10 years
and no it’s not typically recycled
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27. 377,359
…number of people that water
could sustain over a ten year period
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28. 1.7 billion
…number of people without access
to clean drinking water worldwide
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29. 5%
…of the worlds population are
Americans
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30. 24%
…of the worlds energy is used by
Americans
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31. 177,000,000
…kW/Hr’s used by a typical mid-
sized data center over 10 years
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32. That is 17,700
US homes
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33. 145,000
…lbs of copper used in a typical
mid-sized data center over 10 years
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34. 29,000
…lbs of copper that could be
reduced by implementing Nexus
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35. 80%
…the carbon footprint of an Avatar
in SecondLIFE as compared to a
real person using US averages
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36. 31%
…average American obesity rate,
the worlds highest
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37. Consider the
impacts of how
you work, play
and learn
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38. 200
…miles driven in a Toyota Camry,
the equivalent impact of a 2-point
Telepresence session for one hour
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39. 106
…number of times a typical web
transaction is touched by IT
infrastructure
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40. 20
…number of times a typical web
transaction is touched using Cisco’s
Application Control Engine (ACE)
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41. 5.3 tons
…of CO2 produced by a single
volume server in one year using US
average electrical emissions
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42. 4.4 tons
…of CO2 produced by a Toyota
Camry driving 15,000 miles in one
year
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43. 1
…volume server will produce 1,000
times its own weight in CO2 over a
5 year period
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