Currently, 2% of all energy utilized in the world is thanks to datacenters. This is equivalent to the total energy consumed by the airline industry globally. Server capacity on the other hand, is expected to grow 6 times of what it was in 2000 by 2010. Consequently, storage capacities are set to grow 69 times to accommodate the growth in servers. This directly relates, despite all advances in the data centre industry, to a doubling of energy utilization every five years, and for the records, energy costs have gone up by 10% last year in the US. What is more shocking is the fact that the technology density of datacenters is growing at 20 times every 10 years, which means you should ideally have a datacenter which perform 20 times as well as your current datacenter in the next 10 years. This almost impossible proposition is worsened by the fact that 78% of all datacenters globally have not been upgraded, scaled up or enhanced ever since they were deployed, and are more than 7 years old. The only way out is to either ensure that your next data centre is green or change the business dynamics to suit the changing trend in datacenter deployment-which lowers the lifetime significantly and even provides datacenters on demand.
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