Carbon Neutral Web Hosting

Rackspace takes the environment seriously and has several initiatives towards making their company greener and reducing their carbon footprint, which in turn helps make our customers become greener too. Our initiatives are wrapped into Greenspace.

Initiatives include carbon offsetting as well as reduction in the first place, by using the most power efficient hardware as well as building new facilities which utilise the latest power efficient technologies.

Carbon Offsetting

Rackspace became one of the UK’s first hosting companies to offer carbon neutral hosting through tree planting in October 2006 when it partnered with the ITF, the world’s longest standing tree planting charity. So far Rackspace is planting between 300-400 trees a month and has already filled up two sites in Pembrokeshire, Wales with nearly 2,000 trees and we are now rapidly filling up a new site in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. In turn this project enables Rackspace customers to lower their own carbon footprint through tree planting, which mitigates the carbon generated through the servers.

Data Centre Technology

Rackspace’s carbon neutral initiative is about more than just tree planting, other projects include the utilisation of a data centre, opened in June 2008, that utilises the latest power efficient technology such as power efficient cooling, utilising the cooler outside air temperature where possible.