Verizon's three operating companies—Verizon Telecom, Verizon Wireless and
Verizon Business—employ 228,600 people in 75 countries, occupy about 32,000
facilities, operate some 59,000 vehicles and partner with about 3,800 suppliers
to source material.
In 2007, Verizon corporate consumed 9.4 billion kilowatt hours of electricity
along with 60 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. As its networks are
upgraded, the company continues to manage vast amounts of electronic equipment—19,000
tons, give or take a few pounds. In the process, it also uses 36 tons of
cell phone batteries and 18,000 tons of paper and cardboard.
The company now is undergoing a major transformation from data centers that
were built in the 1980s and 1990s, and is replacing the older, more
power-hungry servers and storage arrays with newer, faster and more
power-sipping models with cooler-running multicore processors from Intel and Advanced
Micro Devices.
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