Grow Your Own Virtual Forest and Save $6 Billion/Year Worldwide

Worldwide usage of Supermicro high-efficiency solutions could save up to $5.7 billion per year in electricity costs, 57 billion kilowatt-hours per year of electricity or the equivalent of 9 billion trees compared to the servers in use in today's data centers.

For example, a datacenter with 1,000 1U high-efficiency servers could save up to $84K annually in electricity costs, 700 tons of CO₂, or the equivalent of 240 acres of trees for the sequestration of CO₂ emissions.

Supermicro Green Technology and Design

Optimized system architecture created to take advantage of Supermicros power saving technology to produce optimal cooling at all application levels
Motherboards designed with leading-edge technology based on the latest generation x86 processors and high-efficiency components such as VRMs optimized to reduce energy consumption
High-efficiency power supplies designed to run at significantly higher efficiencies of up to 94%+, greatly reducing energy losses
Cooling subsystems including advanced technology heat sinks, pulse-width modulated fan speed control, structured chassis airflow design, intelligent temperature and power management, all designed for the most effective cooling for all system components
Low-power components such as processors, memory, and HDDs

Supermicro Keeps IT Green

Calculations and Sources

This study outlines the energy costs of data centers and servers worldwide and quantifies the opportunity for improved energy savings through the use of high-efficiency servers. Following is a detailed description of the calculations and information sources. The calculation is theoretical and is not intended to provide precise figures for specific configurations or applications.

Annual Electricity Savings From Servers Worldwide & Equivalent Number of Trees in CO₂ Sequestration

Electric Power Saved by using High-Efficiency Servers • World electricity consumption, 2007 ⁽¹⁾	17.93 T kWh
• Percentage of world electricity consumption used by IT equipment, cooling and auxiliary infrastructure equipment in data centers ⁽²⁾	1%
• Direct Electricity consumption from servers + cooling in data centers worldwide, 2007 ⁽³⁾	179.3 B kWh
• Yearly growth in electricity consumption from servers + cooling in data centers worldwide, 2007-2009 ⁽⁴⁾	10%
• Direct Electricity consumption from servers + cooling worldwide, 2009 ⁽³⁾	238.6 B kWh
• Electricity savings by using high-efficiency servers ⁽⁴⁾	16%
• Direct electricity savings (servers + cooling) from using high-efficiency servers worldwide, 2009 ⁽³⁾	38 B kWh
Electric Power Costs Saved by using High-Efficiency Servers • Cost per kWh of industrial electric power worldwide, 2009 ^{(5, 6, 7, 8, 9)}	$0.10 / kWh
• Cost of electricity savings from using high-efficiency servers worldwide, 2009 ⁽³⁾	$3.8 B
Number of Trees Saved by using High-Efficiency Servers • Pounds of CO₂ generated per kWh ⁽¹⁰⁾	1.329 lbs/kWh
• Pounds of CO₂ saved in data centers using high-efficiency servers ⁽³⁾	50.8 B lbs
• CO₂ sequestration rate, yearly ⁽¹¹⁾	5,753 lbs/acre
• Acres of trees saved ⁽³⁾	8.0 M acres
• Trees per acre, average, U.S. ⁽¹²⁾	700 trees/acre
• Number of trees saved due to CO₂ sequestration savings from reduced server power consumption, 2009 ⁽³⁾	6.2 B trees

Sources

The World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency, May 2010).
Koomey, J.G. 2008, "Worldwide electricity used in data centers", Environmental Research Letters 3 (2008) 034008 (8 pp).
Calculation
Supermicro internal data
United States - Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, May 2010, Table 9.9: Average Retail Prices of Electricity.
United States - Energy Information Administration, International Electricity Price and Fuel Cost Tables, Electricity Prices for Industry.
English.Xinhuanet.com. "China raises price of electricity for non-residential use." 11-19-2009.
Wikipedia, List of Countries by GDP (nominal)
This calculation averages the electric power costs for largest 20 countries weighted by GDP (per International Monetary Fund)
US EPA (2010). eGRID2007 year 2005 Summary Tables.
Tufts Climate Initiative. Sequestration: How much CO₂ does a tree take up?
Amount is averaged over the four tree types.
USDA Forest Service (2002). Forest Resources of the United States. 1977_2002_Live_trees_dbh.xls.

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