U.S. data center electricity use has more than doubled since 2000, according to a 2007 government report, to more than $4 billion in electricity costs. This is...
Roughly equal to the amount used by over 5 million U.S. households More electricity than is used by all the nation's color televisions Comparable to the amount of electricity used by the entire U.S. transportation manufacturing industry
Source: U.S. Department of Energy
Reprinted with permission © 2008 TreeTop Technologies
Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 2 Issue 11 November 2008