Sustainability: Green Hosting for a smaller online carbon footprint

We are doing our best to reduce our environmental footprint. But did you know that you can also make significant steps online?
storing and processing data can be smarter, greener, and more cost-effective with climate-friendly web hosting. Together with Leafcloud, we are working hard on an effective and scalable hosting environment for our websites. How does Leafcloud do this? We’ll tell you all about green hosting solutions.

Smart technology, sustainable impact 

Datacenters consume enormous amounts of energy to store data, resulting in large amounts of waste heat. Leafcloud saw an opportunity here and uses sustainable datacenters: existing buildings. Their servers are placed in apartment complexes, healthcare facilities, and other large buildings. The heat that is generated directly heats these locations.
This not only minimizes energy loss but also significantly contributes to reducing your carbon footprint. Leafcloud’s solution saves over 1775 kg of CO2 per kW/year of used (green) energy. And this reduced CO2 emission results in neutral hosting.
Additional bonus: no new massive datacenters need to be built. Win-win!

‘Unlike the cloud giants’ datacenters, Leafcloud’s solution returns over 80% of the server waste heat.’ – David Kohnstamm – Chief Sustainability Officer bij Leafcloud

Benefits of Leafcloud

1. SustainabilityBy directly utilizing server heat, Leafcloud is ten times more efficient than traditional datacenters.
2. Local and ethical choicesData is stored in the Netherlands, unaffected by foreign legislation. This makes it much better from a privacy perspective!
3. Security and TransparencyThe use of open-source software ensures reliability.

‘NDT strives for sustainability in various areas, from reducing printed materials to conscious traveling. Eagerly has smoothly arranged the switch to a green cloud provider for us, and we are pleased with this initiative.’ – Daphne Prochowski Coördinator Growth Marketing bij Nederlands Dans Theater

Together towards a greener future

We increasingly rely on the World Wide Web and clouds today, but that doesn’t have to come at the expense of our planet. Leafcloud proves that technology and sustainability can go hand in hand. 
A large part of our websites now run on Leafcloud’s hosting, including ndt.nl. We continue to collaboratively develop the setup to keep it stable and sustainable. Together, we are making teh digital landscape more beautiful and greener, step by step. 

Would you like to discover how Leafcloud can help your organization achieve a greener IT strategy? We can fix this for you!