Our hosting operates from 100% renewable energy. We work with one of the few providers who are leading the way in reducing the carbon footprint of the data centres running our web services.
Blackpear Hosting intentially format our offerings so that we don't encourage unecessary use of data storage space because this costs the environment in storage device manufacture, the cost of the electricity to run them and the cost of removing the heat from the data centre that they sit in. Not forgetting the natural resource usage, and the disposal/ recycling cost at the end of a storage device's life. Every web site you run takes processor power and therefore energy to run it and it runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- In the US alone data cetnres are expected to consume 73 billion kWh of electricity in 2020
- An article in the Independent in 2016 estimated the world's data centres use 416.2 Terawatts of electricity - more than the whole of the UK
- Data centre energy use is doubling every 4 years according to the university of Leeds
- A single data centre can consume more power then a medium sized town
- 17% of the carbon footprint of technology is caused by data centres
- Every byte storage has a knock on impact on the environment but few companies have a policy or take any time to managing data storage in our busy work environment
We want you to think about how much data you store, for how long and why you are storing it because it costs the planet. If you need it we can provide it but please think about how many databases you need, how much data storage you use, how many web services/sites you have running. It helps save your bsuiness money and helps the planet as well.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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