Low-Carbon VPS Hosting?
Recently, we (a small digital agency working mostly with non-profit orgs) are getting asked more and more often about low/no-carbon hosting. We currently host all our production sites on Digital Ocean and staging sites on Hetzner, I've reached out to DO in the past about green hosting options but it's apparently not something they're particularly interested in. I know of some green hosting options for bare metal, but I'm having a hard time finding anything DOish, VPS that we can spin up and kill at will. Anyone have any recommendations?
All of the VPS providers that I know of that say they are green are just buying carbon offsets. Some of them have solar panels on their datacenters but that barely makes up a tiny fraction of the power they use. I do not know of any datacenters that have hundreds of acres of solar panels and rooms of batteries and inverters to entirely power their fleet but I could be wrong. Dig deep if a company claims to use green energy unless you are including carbon offsets as an acceptable compromise.