All of our servers are now wind powered!

Here’s something you may not know: the IT sector has a huge climate impact. 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 are thrilled to announce that Cyclone Imaging has partnered with a company in Texas to provide wind powered and cooled servers for our web hosting customers. Cyclone Imaging and our partners are using renewable energy to both power and cool their servers, whereas a number of green hosts only offset the electricity used to power their servers. That represents a big difference, because servers generate a lot of heat. For every watt of electricity that a server uses, 1-2 watts of electricity are typically required to cool it. What that means is that we are investing in about twice as much renewable energy, on a per server basis, as those green hosts only using renewable energy to power their servers.