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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I was looking for informations concerning DO’s services sustainability, and I ended up making this post to centralize the infos we currently have as customers.
@DigitalOcean: Here are a few questions for your team:
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Bangalore Apparently the services hosted in Bangalore seems to be in a facility own by NTT Communications. But I didn’t find any official source to confirm that assumption. If it happen to be the case: NTT Communications stated in their 2018 report that they partially use wind power energy in their facility.
I asked the support about the Frankfurt data center, and I got the answre below. So, Frankfurt indeed runs on 100% renewable energy, and you can find information about the other data centres as well:
At this time we partner with several data center providers. You can find detail about their energy consumption and efforts to utilize renewable energy sources here:
Equinix (NYC1, LON1, AMS2, AMS3, SGP1, TOR1) - https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/design/green-data-centers/ Digital Realty (NYC2, NYC3, SFO1, SFO2) - https://www.digitalrealty.com/about/sustainability/clean-energy Interxion (FRA1) - https://www.interxion.com/why-interxion/sustainability/ NTT Communications (BLR1) - https://www.ntt.com/en/about-us/csr/eco/ict.html
Found this DigitalOcean idea: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-1007
It’s about the same issue. Give it an upvote if you’d like.