The digital age may have brought the world to our computer.

But our computers are making a significant impact on the world.

A medium sized server has a similar carbon footprint to an SUV achieving 15 miles to the gallon.

A thousand PCs left on all day without any power save settings will consume up to £70,000 worth of electricity per year.

In 1980 before the introduction of computers, world office paper consumption averaged seventy million tonnes a year.

By 1997 it had more than doubled to almost 150 million tonnes.

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