So the big question on your mind is most probably along the lines of "how does an I.T. company go green? they not exactly driving trucks or working in factories or anything like that..." Well, we recently found out some shocking facts from one of our server partners - At present, between 3 and 4 percent of all electricity (and the associated carbon emissions) used in the world goes to running data centers.

We found out even more crazy overlooked facts; If you’re one of the four and a half million registered users of Second Life, consider this: the average Second Life avatar consumes 1,752 kWh of electricity per year, or about two thirds that of an actual person (globally averaged). One server alone has roughly the same climate impact as a 15mpg SUV!

 

a wind generator just like this is powering the site you are looking at right now.

The reality is we can go on and on about climate change and the ongoing crisis (and I reckon it is a crisis) of humans destroying the planet, ignorance, politics, war and all other world realities we constantly deal with on a day to day basis. As far as we are concerned - change comes from within - just like this article, case in point. Find out the facts, see if you can make changes, and get it done.

How Manta Online has achieved this is buy using servers that only work on a renewable energy basis - our new data center in Texas purchases Renewable Energy Credits (REC) - these are tradeable credits representing all the environmental benefits of 1 megawatt hour of renewable energy. Sort of like an exchangable token for clean energy, when these tokens are purchased it’s basically paying a Texas windfarm to generate renewable energy into the grid - which the datacenter draws energy from.

The data center has purchased REC's for 130% of the electricity used to power and cool its servers and has invested entirely in wind REC's to cover all energy consumption in the data center - creating a green hosting solution! So, how can you get involved? Switch to green hosting: host your site / domains only to servers that make use of sestainable energy sources, such as wind turbines. For more information, you can checkout 3 degrees - a great site for resources and other green stuff.

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