Green Data Center in Louisville
Between The Green Building and Hosting.com's initiative to buy Green Energy blocks to offset their data center's consumption downtown Louisville is becoming a little hot bed of green business policies at work.
Who on earth knew that data centers suck up 1.5% of all energy? Wow. Very cool of Hosting.com to pay attention and start moving the industry in a greener direction.Demonstrating their intent to lead the commercial sector in green initiatives, Hosting.Com, a web hosting and co-location services company, is purchasing 208 Green Energy blocks - 1,000 kilowatt hours each - monthly for the next 12 months. To put that in perspective, that is equivalent to planting approximately 1,310 acres of trees, or removing 304 cars from the road.
Nationally, data centers consume up to 1.5 percent of all energy consumption. "We believe it is our social and business responsibility to offset our carbon emissions. Our industry is one that must take a close look at its energy consumption and the impact it will have on the environment," said Darren King, CEO of Hosting.Com.
King added, "We hope to set the industry standard on environmental stewardship. To that end, we have built one of the greenest data centers in the country, virtualized our server environments to optimize usage and output, and set up a program to reimburse all employees that participate in such programs."
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