Re: How much of the web runs on renewables today?

Great to see this project. Lots of resources I collected going back several
years at http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com



On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Chris Adams <chris@productscience.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Through this group, I've made a few useful contacts, who have helped me do
> some research I figured might be interesting.
>
> I was planning to use it as background research for the Planet Friendly
> Web Guide <https://www.planetfriendlyweb.org/>, as I work on it this
> week, but I figured others might find it useful, or interesting.
>
> Here are the highlights:
>
>    - Youtube.com is now more popular than google.com. Who knew?
>    - The top three websites in the world run on renewable power. Huzzah!
>    - Based on the greenweb foundation’s data, around 7% of the web the
>    most popular domains on the net run on renewable power. We have a lot of
>    work to do, clearly.
>    - Hetzner AG, a German hosting company hosts more domains running on
>    green power  in the top 100k sites according to Alexa than Google does.
>
> I've written a blog post below summarising this, and linking to the code I
> used to generate the dataset, and what little analysis I've been doing:
>
> https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2018/05/15/how-much-of-the-
> web-runs-on-renewables-today/
>
> I'm really looking for others interested in looking through this, to come
> up with other interesting findings a bit like how Tim did with the
> Ecograder stuff.
>
> So, if you know any folks who like playing with data, and well… like the
> planet, please do share this with them.
>
> *A favour to ask*
>
> If you could help me with this next thing, I'd be *super* happy.
>
> I'm looking for numbers for the energy use for servers, per hour, for
> running infrastructure, so I can build a calculator to share on the web -
> can anyone here can point me to a resource that isn't behind a massive
> paywall,?
>
> If I have this I can work out a CO2 emissions per hour figure (which
> probably should take into account where in the world the servers are
> <https://www.planetfriendlyweb.org/your-packets/#energy-mix-around-the-world>),
> and have enough to start testing a methodology for helping tech companies
> get a ballpark figure in terms of CO2 emissions of infra they are already
> running, so they model different ways to run the applications/products they
> build.
>
>
>
>
> --
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>
> Chris Adams
>
>


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