Although powering a huge datacentre may not appear to be very ‘green’, the environmental
costs of cloud computing have been assessed by Sustainablebrands.com and found to be of
benefit to those businesses looking to reduce the impact on the environment.
Fewer machines, efficient climate control, reuse of generated heat and many more environmental benefits can be
achieved with cloud computing. Here are ten cloud providers who are ‘going green’.
GOING GREEN
Green Cloud Providers
Based across
Scandinavia, this cloud
hosting company
offer many excellent services through its green datacentres.
Powered by hydropower and operating in accordance with
ISO 14001 Environmental Standard Guidelines, this Nordic
datacentre is one of the greenest in the world.
EVRY CLOUD SERVICESHeadquartered in Iceland,
Greenqloud offer private and
hybrid cloud solutions for any size
business. The datacentre is centred around Iceland’s renewable
geothermal and hydro energy infrastructure; the company
even offers a CO2 meter in its dashboard for users to view. It’s
certainly one of the best and environmentally friendly cloud
providers available.
GREENQLOUDGoogle’s entire infrastructure is carbon-
neutral, which is a pretty impressive feat
considering the size and computing power
that the company’s datacentre operates at. 35-percent of
the energy that Google uses for its datacentres comes from
renewable sources and the company is aiming to improve that
further in the future. GOOGLEMicrosoft Azure offers a set
of cloud services through
the company’s managed
datacentres. The company’s datacentres and cloud platform
services are carbon-neutral, using renewable sources for its
energy needs; in fact, Microsoft is one of the USA’s largest
green power purchaser. MICROSOFT AZURECloud for Business