Decommissioning a Data Center in 5 Easy Steps

In this video, we breakdown decommissioning a data center into five steps. This time-lapse video shows the entire process. During the process, the IT Asset Disposition service provider removed hard drives, pulled servers, disconnected cables, removed racks, and recycled pounds of cables. 

0:01 Step One: Removed 13,802 hard drives to shredding 

0:08 Step Two: Pulled 904 servers 

0:20 Step Three: Disconnected cables from racks 

0:31 Step Four: Removed 104 racks 

0:40 Step Five: Recycled 9,211 pounds of cables

source; Youtube