Comments on: Can Rackspace power data centre on renewables? http://www.greenbang.com/can-rackspace-power-data-centre-on-renewables_3567.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve O'Donnell http://www.greenbang.com/can-rackspace-power-data-centre-on-renewables_3567.html/comment-page-1#comment-3050 Steve O'Donnell Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:24:11 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3567/can-rackspace-power-data-centre-on-renewables/#comment-3050 Jason, Sounds like you spoke to a pretty stupid salesperson who hasn't a clue what renewables means, I can't believe that this was the company line. For example, BT (clearly FTSE100) have an enormous contract (biggest in the world) to buy green electricity to power their global network and believe me they take this stuff very seriously. So how can ecologicalhosting.com deliver data center capacity on solar power alone? Frankly this is neither very green nor very economic. The data center is in California which has enormous electricity overload problems so the State Government subsidizes IT firms who go green to an enormous extent. Also Solar Panels use more energy in their manufacture than they save in their life. Steve<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3050','Steve O\'Donnell'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3050','Steve O\'Donnell','Jason,\r\n\r\nSounds like you spoke to a pretty stupid salesperson who hasn\'t a clue what renewables means, I can\'t believe that this was the company line. For example, BT (clearly FTSE100) have an enormous contract (biggest in the world) to buy green electricity to power their global network and believe me they take this stuff very seriously.\r\n\r\nSo how can ecologicalhosting.com deliver data center capacity on solar power alone? Frankly this is neither very green nor very economic. The data center is in California which has enormous electricity overload problems so the State Government subsidizes IT firms who go green to an enormous extent. Also Solar Panels use more energy in their manufacture than they save in their life.\r\n\r\nSteve'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Jason,

Sounds like you spoke to a pretty stupid salesperson who hasn’t a clue what renewables means, I can’t believe that this was the company line. For example, BT (clearly FTSE100) have an enormous contract (biggest in the world) to buy green electricity to power their global network and believe me they take this stuff very seriously.

So how can ecologicalhosting.com deliver data center capacity on solar power alone? Frankly this is neither very green nor very economic. The data center is in California which has enormous electricity overload problems so the State Government subsidizes IT firms who go green to an enormous extent. Also Solar Panels use more energy in their manufacture than they save in their life.

Steve

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]]> By: Jason Elliott http://www.greenbang.com/can-rackspace-power-data-centre-on-renewables_3567.html/comment-page-1#comment-3036 Jason Elliott Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:43:43 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3567/can-rackspace-power-data-centre-on-renewables/#comment-3036 I approached Rackspace in February 2006 about providing the hosting for Ethical Jobs and the Ethical Directory with a particular request for a server powered by renewables. They completely poo-pooed the idea saying that if I had a dedicated server for £300 a month that they would plant a tree for me. They said that powering their server with renewables was out of the question as it would never be reliable enough and "90 of the FTSE100" (i.e. their main clientbase) would never "put up with that kind of risk". Needless to say, I went with ecologicalhosting.com who, as an unexpected bonus, provided me with the most exceptional, personalised service, as well as reliable servers powered by 100% renewable energy.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3036','Jason Elliott'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3036','Jason Elliott','I approached Rackspace in February 2006 about providing the hosting for Ethical Jobs and the Ethical Directory with a particular request for a server powered by renewables. They completely poo-pooed the idea saying that if I had a dedicated server for £300 a month that they would plant a tree for me. They said that powering their server with renewables was out of the question as it would never be reliable enough and \"90 of the FTSE100\" (i.e. their main clientbase) would never \"put up with that kind of risk\".\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, I went with ecologicalhosting.com who, as an unexpected bonus, provided me with the most exceptional, personalised service, as well as reliable servers powered by 100% renewable energy.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I approached Rackspace in February 2006 about providing the hosting for Ethical Jobs and the Ethical Directory with a particular request for a server powered by renewables. They completely poo-pooed the idea saying that if I had a dedicated server for £300 a month that they would plant a tree for me. They said that powering their server with renewables was out of the question as it would never be reliable enough and “90 of the FTSE100″ (i.e. their main clientbase) would never “put up with that kind of risk”.

Needless to say, I went with ecologicalhosting.com who, as an unexpected bonus, provided me with the most exceptional, personalised service, as well as reliable servers powered by 100% renewable energy.

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