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À la recherche d'un hébergement éco-responsable vraiment français

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YuriDavid

Member OP

#1

- green hosting
- what does it even mean
- NOTE: most "eco" labels are just carbon credits
- WARNING: "100% renewable" ≠ local renewable
- can be certificates bought from iceland
- while server burns coal in gravelines
- my requirements
- server physically in france
- electricity from french grid mix or better
- proof, not promises
- PUE < 1.3 if possible
- found so far
- RackNerd: "green" label, no details
- Hetzner: carbon neutral via offsets, datacenter in germany
- GreenCloudVPS: vague "eco-friendly", no PUE published
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- question to forum
- anyone with actual data?
- not marketing pdf
- real electricity source, real location

indentation is not optional
web10

Member

off-grid admin

#2
YuriDavid said:
PUE < 1.3

Bloody good target. 03/02/2026 and most "green" hosts don't even publish their PUE.

Metric: PUE 1.3 means for every kWh of compute, 0.3 kWh gets burned on cooling and auxiliary power. European average sits around 1.6. Some old French datacenters blow past 2.0, it's a disgrace.

What actually matters:
- physical server location (less transit = less network loss)
- real power source, not certificates
- ambient air cooling when possible

I ran the numbers: 1 kWh of compute in France clocks ~50g CO2 thanks to nuclear. Even "green" German does 300-400g with their coal + intermittent wind mix.

Chen

Member

☁️ multi-cloud mess

#3

RackNerd "green" with no details is just marketing fluff eh

Bruno22

Member

#4

PUE 2,0 is genuinely absurd, old french DCs need to catch up

ping so high I wave back
MeritBudi

Member

#5

GreenCloudVPS cut off mid-word, anyone got the rest of that list?

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