The Scope of Green ICT Opportunities

There are green ICT opportunities in design, manufacturing, operation, and disposal
For every dollar spent on computer hardware, 50 cents are spent on power and cooling, growing to one dollar by 2012
Energy will be the second-highest operating cost in 70% of worldwide data center facilities through 2009
In 2008, half of today's data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity
Many organizations face an annual energy bill higher than their annual server budget

Source: Forrester Research, 2007; Gartner Group, 2006; Storage magazine, 2007; IBM, 2007; Cisco IBSG, 2008