According to Intel estimates, infrastructure and software inefficiency count for over 50% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the data center.
— Intel
Only 32% of data available to enterprises is put to work. The remaining 68% goes unleveraged.
— Seagate 2024: Rethink Data
Servers in internal and small data centers average 11% utilization in 2014, rising linearly to 20% in 2027. Colocation data centers average 21% utilization in 2014, rising to 35% in 2027. Hyperscale data centers average 45% in 2014, rising to 50% in 2027. AI accelerated and non-accelerated servers doing training are assumed to have a constant 80% operational time throughout the whole period, while the same servers doing inferencing have a constant 40% operational time (see Figure 3.6).
Actual server utilization levels of hyperscale cloud providers are unknown. The tool Cloud Carbon Footprint uses the average 50 % as a fallback if the cloud provider's API don't provide actual utilization data.
Over 65 percent of Kubernetes workloads are utilizing less than half of their requested CPU and memory.