Hi y'all,

Not a feature request as such ...

How about the looking at using renewable electricity supplies?
Apart from the obvious environmental benefits, it could be good for business - lots of people are increasingly energy concious and using a green supply would be a great selling point.

Google use 54% renewable apparently.

How about it guys?

aVo

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T'aint what you do it's the way that you do it.

google runs their own datacenters, linode doesn't, so it's not directly under their control.

Ok.
So maybe they could use their purchasing power to try to effect a change by whoever supplies the energy that runs the servers.

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T'aint what you do it's the way that you do it.

They could just get a location in Quebec, since 93.4% of our energy is renewable, and 96.37% is green, and we have among the cheapest energy prices in North America

Personally I think Linode should just purchase their own coal power plant and go hard. Coal power provides much faster bandwidth than all this fancy shmancy green stuff.

Even if you don't own the datacenter, you can still become carbon-neutral by planting trees in your back yard (or growing weed in your basement?)

Growing weed in your basement needs electricity for the lights. Move somewhere warm and remote -- and grow weed in your back.

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/ Peter

Meh.

I need LInode to do one thing - provide reliable VPS hosting.

I don't need them to jack up their prices because they've jumped on the green bandwagon.

+1 for vonskippy. Well put.

Hey, Linode is already green enough. Just look at http://www.linode.com/ Plenty of green pixels there.

How would you get through airport scanners with that little operation in your back?

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Disclaimer: I am no longer employed by Linode; opinions are my own alone.

Does energy come in any other colors?

James

I did the math awhile back to figure out how much energy a Linode uses. If we assume the hosts are fully provisioned with two Xeon L5420s and four hard drives, that's 100 watts for the host CPUs, we'll say 40 watts for the hard drives, and 60 watts to make the blue LEDs pulsate. We'll then multiply that by 2.5 for cooling and heating losses, so 500 watts per host, or 360 kWh/month/host.

If we further assume 40 Linode 360s per host, that's 9 kWh/month per Linode 360 (multiplied accordingly for larger plans). If we assume 1.297 lbs CO2 per kWh, that's about 11.7 pounds of CO2 per month per Linode 360. A human exhales about 1 kg of CO2 per day, or about 66 pounds of CO2 per month.

I'm not too worried.

+2 for vonskippy

I'd rather have quality than green. Have you ever tried to write on recycled paper?

fos

Writing? How quaint.

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Rgds
Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)