[BNM] Solar/Eco Web Hosting

[Ali]

Indeed I made this observation here about a year ago and have still yet to find a green datacentre ANYWHERE in the world (i.e. not just offsetting or buying green credits) - even California. I resigned myself to offsetting (if there is any milage in that?) the estimated carbon footprint of a VPS I have run in a London datacentre.

Ali

On 06/10/2007 13:05:58, Premasagar Rose (p at premasagar.com) wrote:
> As far as I can make out, all it would need is for a hosting company to
> get their electricity from someone like Good Energy
> <http://www.good-energy.co.uk> and the problem would be solved...
> 
> I see that there are plans afoot to create a UK datacentre that runs off
> renewables: <http://www.ecologicalhosting.com/uk-data-centre>
> I'll be watching with interest. In the meantime, I'm going to get my
> services with a renewable energy hosting company from the States...
> 
> Premasagar.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Neil Ford wrote:
> > On 10/3/07, Premasagar Rose wrote:
> >
> >> I have not yet been able to find a single company that offers
> >> hosting from UK servers running on renewable energy.
> >>
> > My guess is you will find it virtually impossible unfortunately. The
> > UK doesn't really have the climate to produce enough renewable energy
> > to run a datacentre. Hence why people are re-selling facilities in
> > California where the weather is much more favourable.
> >
> > Neil.
> >
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