There are around 12 million servers driving approximately 3 million data centers. Energy waste is a major problem regarding the media stored in these data centers. According to a study by NRDC, most electricity waste is from smaller-size data centers. Currently, the electricity usage is around 91 billion kilowatt-hours which equals the power generation of 34 coal-fired power plants. Additionally, the rising electronic media demands will increase electricity consumption to around 140 billion kilowatt hours a year. Worsening this situation is that most of the 12 million servers within the United States are idle. This means that they are consuming electricity without performing useful work.
