It's something that most site owners wouldn't think about - a connection between web hosting and global warming. 

Did you know that the electricity consumed by data centers (where servers are stored) globally is equivalent to the production of 14 coal fired 1,000-megawatt power plants? Source. 

To give you some idea of how much electricity that is; a 1000-megawatt power plant can service the needs of a city the size of Boston or Seattle! When you take into account that traditional coal fired electricity generation spews around 1,970 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per megawatt-hour, you can get some idea of just how much an impact the hosting industry must have on global warming. Aside from the carbon dioxide, the main offender when it comes to global warming, coal power also generates other poisonous emissions such as mercury and sulfur dioxide.

 

ThinkHost is one of the largest progressive principles based, renewable energy powered, green web hosting companies in the world today. We saw the writing on the wall in 2003 and then made the change to green power sources  to become carbon neutral- in the interests of the environment and our clients' interest in the same.

After all, without a habitable environment, all our technology, toys and trinkets are rather useless, aren't they? Commerce doesn't thrive if nobody is around to buy anything.

Since switching to renewable energy, we've seen a steady influx of people who share our concerns about global warming. Everyone from mainstream business, to the dedicated "greenies", environmental activists and non-profit groups who are making efforts to become carbon neutral themselves. It's been such a great stage in our evolution and it spurs us on to do even more.

We hope you'll join us in our contribution against global warming, by hosting your site with us. The environment and your clients will thank you for it!