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Opened by OrdCom - 06/23/2011

Internet companies are now among the world's largest energy consumers and are therefore increasingly promoting environmental sustainability. This is understandable given that the energy consumption of large data centers already exceeds that of air traffic.
This is very worrying given the growth of this particularly energy-intensive activity.

To date, communication has primarily focused on reducing electricity consumption, which is the primary cost center of a data center. Ultimately, hosting providers are reducing their prices and making their offerings more accessible, resulting in higher sales and, ultimately, higher energy consumption.

The remaining solution is to urge our energy suppliers to develop renewable solutions rather than all-nuclear power. This, even if it means running the risk of making us less competitive.

OrdCom has just taken a significant step towards the environment by signing a contract allowing it to offset not 10% or 20%, but 100% of its energy consumption with renewable energy.

With this new contract, for every kWh purchased by OrdCom to power your services, EDF commits to putting 1 kWh produced from renewable energy into the grid. This approach results in an additional cost for OrdCom but contributes to the financing and creation of sustainable energy production projects.

At the same time, OrdCom is continuing its efforts to control its energy consumption. Previous initiatives and innovations have already resulted in a PUE of less than 1.3 (ratio between total energy consumed and the energy actually used to power the services), while this value is 2.6 on average for traditional data centers. While this efficiency doesn't allow us to further lower our prices, it does allow us to maintain them.

OrdCom customers participate in this initiative and can display this commitment themselves, thus promoting their approach and their services.