Following the recent Clean Our Cloud Greenpeace campaign and the How dirty is your data? report, some of my clients started asking about my hosting service energy footprint and expressed their interest in using a carbon neutral service provider.

Being Linode my main provider, I'd like to have some information about Linode's corporate environmental footprint and in particular about Linode's data centers energy footprint.

Thank you.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha.

Oh, you weren't joking.

Back over in this other thread, I guessed about 500 watts per physical host, including HVAC. I suspect this is a little low.

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1.21 gigawatts!

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I'm sure a VPS server is much more efficient per web site than a dedicated server.

There are companies out there that charge extra for "green" servers, sort of like the government subsidizing electric cars. I read an article this week that said it would take 47 years to break even with a Government Motors Volt.

A bolt of lightning!

Those are niether politically correct or "carbon dioxide neutral" - how can we stop them?

James

P.S. Throwing peices of coal in the air would literally be "carbon neutral" as it would fall back to earth. Unless we throw really hard.

Far from it. In fact it recently became obvious that these also produce gamma rays and we all know what that means.

It means that if you get hit with lightning often enough, you will become big and strong and green - ripping out of whatever you are wearing except of course for your miraculous stretching pants.

James

At least you'll match the linode colour scheme.

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C'mon, guys. OP is being serious. Can we at least offer lame answers like "Greener than most of the clients' SUVs"?





In a totally offtopic manner, I wonder how many of us here actually know what this means.

OK here's a better lame answer "Linode is really green, green is their favourite colour, they're so green they're super green!"

Considering this is a forum of geeks, I'd say a fair few know what a grue is

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Yeh, since most are wielding LAMPs, they probably never met one.

Darn it I always knew apache had a use! my LEMP stack isn't going to protect me.

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I dunno, my answer was pretty serious. But to elucidate and summarize:

- I'd guess about 10 watts per Linode 512, including cooling.
- Linode does not operate their own datacenters, so the rest of it is out of their direct control. However, the industry is very motivated to reduce electrical consumption as much as possible, since it's a major (if not the major) ongoing cost of a facility. This isn't directly a "green" thing, but rather a $ (or £ or ¥) thing... but the end result is the same.
- Linode employees are encouraged to take self-directed steps to reduce their ecological footprint, such as biking to work, showering once per week, and minimizing the use of pants. (edit: disregard this)

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