Lukas Mezger <[email protected]> wrote: > With the help of Juliet Barbara and Gregory Varnum, we now have detailed > public figures regarding the energy use and energy sources of the Wikimedia > servers: As of May 2016, the servers use 222 kW, summing up to about 2 GWh > of electrical energy per year. For more information, please see > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact.
> The next step would be to figure out the cost and feasibility of having the > servers run on 100% renewable energy. I'd appreciate it if someone could > help me find out how this works. As a European consumer, I can order > renewable energy for my house simply by calling my energy company on the > phone, with the price difference being negligible. I assume it is not just > as easy in our case, right? At Hawaii consumer prices, 2 GWh equals less than US-$ 800,000; that would be roughly 1 % of the Wikimedia Foundation budget. Don't you think it would be much better for *actually* reducing the environmental impact to start on the 99 % (or probably more like 99.5 %)? It would certainly be cheaper than paying *more* for energy. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
