Where can I find a statement from DigitalOcean about their environmental impact, carbon footprint and so on? This is becoming a more and more important factor when choosing hosting providers.
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Hi @anderstornblad,
I’m not sure that answers your whole question but I’ll recommend giving the following page a look:
https://www.digitalocean.com/impact
There are segments like:
Green DigitalOcean DigitalOcean’s plans to bring understanding to our carbon footprint and identify key Environmental, Social, and Governance focus areas.
Additionally, you can find such resources helpful as well:
https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/announcing-do-impact
or
I would also very much appreciate some detail on ANY efforts that Digital Ocean is putting forward to help offset environmental impacts. It helps achieve an organizational goal of our’s “Exclusively partner / contract with environmentally conscious vendors”. I fully respect that the process of hosting is inherently dependent on energy consumption.
Heya,
DigitalOcean is committed to minimizing its carbon footprint and maintaining sustainable practices. DigitalOcean actively invests in utilizing efficient server hardware and optimizing the overall energy efficiency of its data centers, which have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) averaging at 1.15. By leveraging renewable energy, DigitalOcean aims to make an even greater positive environmental impact.
As of now, specific details about the carbon impact of particular servers are not available. To get the most up-to-date information on DigitalOcean’s sustainability efforts, you may follow these links
https://www.digitalocean.com/impact
https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/giving-tuesday-2021
Hope that this helps!
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