On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote: > Lukas Mezger <lukas.mez...@gmail.com> 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.
What is an energy consumption estimate of the other 99% of budget expenditure? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
