Colocation execs fret about sustainability as world eyes water, energy use

Assessing the sustainability credentials of your company's colocation provider is currently not so simple as they don't all report the same information. However, a move to support best practices will have an advantage in future when the regulatory noose tightens. These findings come in a new report from the Uptime Institute …

[Anonymous Coward]

Yer what?

I seem to be out of the loop: what is a "colocation provider"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yer what?

You pay them to house your kit. The idea being they have the infrastructure to survive power cuts etc, and a ****ing enormous megabit pipe to serve your websites faster.

However all of that being said, having been shafted by ours believing they can charge £1/kWh, we are pulling out and going to bare metal providers OVH.

It would be impolitic of me to mention them by name. However they are Derby based, so you can speculate.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yer what?

Thanks for the enightenment - not something I need to worry about, fortunately.