An Inconvenient IT Truth

…Surveys show that 48 percent of IT budgets is being spent on energy.

And 70 percent of those surveyed say power and cooling are now their biggest problem.

More than 50 percent of the power going into a typical data center goes to the power and cooling systems and NOT to the IT loads.

A 1 megawatt data center takes 177,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, worth about $17,000,000 over its 10-year life (at 10 cents per kwh).