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Green hosting — genuine transition or marketing paint?

Datacenter Talk by zoekyo 4 replies 291 views
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Green hosting. How do you tell the real thing from paint.

Simple is better. But here I cannot see the shape of it

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Anything below 1.2 is considered efficient, but the number is self-reported and rarely audited in this price segment.

What concerns me more is the data protection angle. A provider claiming green energy but routing all traffic through jurisdictions with weak privacy laws is not solving the problem, only relocating it. The GDPR requires transparency about processing locations, and I have seen "green" hosts who are remarkably opaque about where their certificates originate. If the renewable energy is generated on another continent and offset by certificates, the carbon accounting becomes questionable, to be precise.

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#3

Self-reported PUE with no audit is basically useless.

#4

Routing through weak privacy jurisdictions defeats the whole point

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#5

Which hosts are opaque about certificates

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