What kind of electricity do you run on?

January 30, 2014 4.4k views
morag.embleton
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Really I want to know if the electricity to run the cloud hosting is from renewable sources, wind, solar, wave or the old fashioned stuff - oil etc. Does it depend on where the server is based?
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kamaln7 MOD January 31, 2014
We have datacenters located in the NYC area (located in the Equinix and Telx datacenters), San Francisco (Telx), and in Amsterdam (TelecityGroup). You can check what kind of electricity each datacenter runs on on its website.
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  • turboy January 7, 2016

    this answer is a no answer... if you are answering on behalf of digitalocean, I'm sorry for you guys that you have no power to answer clearly and properly to a very easy question.

    E.g. NYC 100% renewable
    Europe 100% renewable
    wherever 50% renewable
    wherever else 0% renewable

    this is an other example how google is stating their energy policy https://cloud.google.com/why-google/ :

    "Carbon neutral and invested in renewable energy

    Google has been carbon-neutral since 2007, investing over $1.5 billion in renewable energy projects. We’re using renewable energy to power over 35% of our operations and we’ve committed to using wind and solar as much as possible by investing in renewable energy projects to grow the industry."

morag.embleton January 31, 2014
Thanks Kamal I'll check them out
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morag.embleton February 3, 2014
Couldn't find the info on Telecity's website, so contacted them. Just got a reply:

"Thank you for question through our website.

We do have a mix of renewable energy, but this is only applicable when customers explicitly ask for. I can only answer you that Digital Ocean is a customer of us in our Amsterdam's site. For more information I would like to refer you to Digital Ocean.

Kind regards,"

I'm going round in circles on this one. Does anyone have a definitive answer?
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morag.embleton February 4, 2014
The answer in case anyone is looking for it is here: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/2891520-green-hosting
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  • turboy January 7, 2016

    the answer, isn't an answer but a "I suggest you ..."

    It's really clear to me that digitalocean isn't explicitly interested about green energy. If someone can prove the opposite, I'd be glad to ear it ;)

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