[LINK] Carbon-neutral web hosting

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Ivan Trundle wrote:

> Dear Linkers
>
> The sums are staggering - the amount of energy consumed by the servers of the 
> world has more than doubled in the period 2000 to 2005, mitigated by the fact 
> that many newer servers consume much less power. And on a local level, our 
> local electricity company wants to build a huge data centre, which got me 
> thinking about the cost to our environment.

> Has anyone got more information to add here?

It's not the servers.  It's the air conditioning used to keep them cool.

How about fitting out a Sun Blackbox container to be entirely provisioned
using low power servers (like the Sun T series) and renewable energy?



rachel

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