Is your website green enough?
The energy required to power your website is not something you would likely give much consideration to. Afterall it’s not often a topic at the forefront of the conversation. The reality, however, is that the internet is a massive, filthy, carbon-emitting beast. It is powered by over 80million servers and the datacenters that run these servers require huge cooling systems. Worldwide, these datacenters, servers, associated networking and cooling systems consume over 2% of the world’s electricity – that represents one of the biggest carbon footprints of any industry.
100% powered by renewable energy
At Kahu we feel an overwhelming responsibility to build websites that are as environmentally and socially responsible as possible. Our websites are hosted on energy-efficient servers powered by 100% renewable energy. In addition, the data centres that host our websites are purpose built, super energy-efficient buildings that use state of the art ‘free cooling’ technology, smart sensors and high-efficiency power supplies. The hosting company even works as paperlessly as possible and encourages employees to work from home to minimise unnecessary travel.
Kahu takes social responsibility very seriously and minimising our impact on the planet is just one factor of this. We make it easy for you to make a difference too, and not only through environmentally responsible website hosting. Although we minimise your sie site’s carbon footprint, there are numerous indirect services such as serch, social meida etc that we can’t control. In order to offset the environmental impact of these associated services we will plant 13 trees for every website we launch.
As well as environmental impact, Kahu works with B1G1 to When you sign up with Kahu you’ll be making a social impact through the Buy 1 Give 1 Business For Good programme. Read more about this here.
At Kahu we are driven by making an impact on society, communities and businesses through small, measurable contributions so why not get on board? View our case studies and learn how we are actively helping clients.
