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Within existing data centres leading firms are using automated tools to locate and unplug idle servers and virtualise underutilised machines. A manual audit of a data centre with 1,000 servers costs approximately $75,000, says Kosten Metreweli of Tideway, while Tideway’s product can audit a data centre daily. A small investment bank in London using Tideway found they could virtualise 30% of their servers, which gave them a carbon savings of 968 tons of CO2 per year.
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