Green energy is a hot topic in the news today. The hosting industry is following this popular movement.
Hosting companies have started implementing and experimenting with new ways to save energy and use our
renewable resources. How are hosting companies doing this?
A company in Canada, Green Star Network, is already jumping on this band wagon and will start implementing
“green power” data centers throughout the world. They are under a lot of scrutiny due to the fact that
renewable resources have great tendencies to run out. The last thing that a hosting company needs is for its
data center to lose power. How are they keeping this from happening?
Green Star Networks has made this project a two-year research effort that is being funded by Canadian
Advanced Network and Research for Industry Education. The goal is to cap the ever growing IT industry’s power
crisis. Green Star Networks plans to remedy this by having interconnected data centers that use only green
power. With any project in the IT world, it takes time and money to get the right solutions in place before
launching a project this big, but the benefits will be many.
For example, the web hosting industry receives the opportunity to advertise Green Hosting; give back to the
environment; and assist in the research for greener powered data centers. As stated earlier, the news and the
public are looking for ways to lower carbon emissions. The way is renewable resources. One of the reasons
Green Star Networks is pushing for greener data centers is that most of the power supplied to the IT world is
from coal-fired energy. When coal is fired, carbon monoxide is released into the atmosphere, causing
pollution.
With the data centers like Green Star Network picking up on these trends to save the world from carbon
emissions, they are doing their part to make it a greener world. Will other data centers follow? By 2020,
the IT world will consume 20% of all the power around the world. Those statist

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