GreenGeeks Web Hosting

We're living in a time of climate crisis and, all over the world, we're looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact we have on the planet we call home. One of the avenues we might not think about is our online activity - and the server power it takes to enable it.

GreenGeeks Web Hosting explain:

"The internet industry consumes enormous amounts of energy. The backbone of the internet are data centers which hold millions of large servers, stacked on top of each other in racks and they are powered up and running all day every day. 40% of all of the energy used to power the internet is used just to keep those servers from overheating.

Data centers worldwide all pull energy from whatever power grid they rely on. Most energy in our power grids are produced by carbon polluting sources. In 2012 there were 500,000 data centers worldwide. Today there are over 8 million data centers worldwide, an increase of 16 fold in 7 years. The Internet is the fastest growing carbon polluting industry and it will eclipse all other industries in terms of worldwide pollution."

To help counteract this huge consumption, GreenGeeks has been recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency since 2009 as a Green Power Partner.

Trey Gardner, GreenGeeks founder, says:

"We work with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in Portland, Oregon. "BEF" is a Green-e Partner. We tell BEF how many servers, personnel, etc. that we have and they calculate our yearly energy consumption and carbon footprint. We then have BEF purchase RECs 3 times as much than we have consumed, and we put that energy back into the grid.

This matches the energy we consume as well as 2 other companies our size. This is our commitment to the environment and to our customers and has been since the beginning."





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