This is super interesting, I wish I knew more about renewable energy suppliers in the US so I could offer something constructive, in the UK you can simply switch your energy supplier to a 100% renewables company e.g Ecotricity and your web hosting company that uses the same.

On 12 January 2017 at 14:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Gerard Meijssen, 12/01/2017 07:48:

Has anyone ever calculated what the footprint of Wikipedia is in terms
of the production of carbondioxide?

WMF is no longer as transparent as it used to be about which servers are used etc., but someone tried some calculations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Environmental_impact#Calculating_Wikimedia.27s_energy_use

Nemo

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