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## How to go Zero Carbon?
To reduce carbon emission from the cloud there are two ways to do it. One is find the ones who are doing zero carbon already, and move your data there and support them so the renewable energy can be the norm. This will also encourage the new players coming into the cloud market to start clean as zero carbon. Two is pushing your cloud provider to change how they are running their servers and go fully renewable. This will help forcing the bigger players in the industry to change.
But for those who are capable, we want to say that go for the first option. It is for the same reason as the zero carbon vs. carbon offset. Keeping status quo is not enough in solving the current situation - when there are those who already doing the right things, go with them now, instead of continuing with those who promise to reach their goal in coming decades.
But for those who are capable, we want to say that go for the first option. It is for the same reason as the zero carbon vs. carbon offset. When there are those who already doing the right things, go with them now, instead of continuing with those who promise to reach their goal in coming decades.
## Our Story of Building Zero Carbon Cloud Infrastructure
In some regions of the world, going zero carbon is much easier than other parts. Take our case in Switzerland for example, we have electricity generated by hydropower from the Alps. We have in-house hydropower generators few meters away from our servers, built from the time when Swiss textile industry made most jeans of the world. The textile industry all left to other countries with cheaper labour cost, leaving vast buildings behind perfect for sitting servers inside. This is how we started our datacenter, with things already built from the past, reusing hardware and reusing infrastructure, and running things only with renewable energy.
## What is available as Zero Carbon cloud now?
- cloud storage
- chat (mattermost and matrix)