In larger companies most hardware is run at about 10% capacity for about 10 hours of the day. Worse are data centers which cost 100s of millions to make and si

In larger companies most hardware is run at about 10% capacity for about 10 hours of the day. Worse are data centers which cost 100s of millions to make and sit unused. I've done some analysis for a large company that spends about 500 million a year on IT infrastructure. Biggest expense? People, second network, after that trails mainframe and Microsoft OS licensing as well as Oracle. Server hardware cost everyone loves to talk about but actually was quite low. Things like AWS cut network, people and can commoditize vendors such as Oracle and MSFT. Biggest savings is on not wasting time on racking hardware.