[LINK] Carbon-neutral web hosting

[Ivan Trundle]

On 04/10/2007, at 1:45 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, when I mentioned 'servers' in this context, I meant to include  
'infrastructure used to support servers'.

I could go further and suggest that the servers themselves require  
energy to design, develop, produce and ship.

Start your calculators, Linkers!

iT