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title: Visit a zero carbon data center
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pub_date: 2020-01-07
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author: Nico Schottelius
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twitter_handle: NicoSchottelius
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abstract:
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Don't trust us - trust your eyes
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From time to time we get the question "Are you really a zero carbon
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data center? How do you proof it?".
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As we use a local hydro power plant and local solar panels, we don't
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have CO2 compensation certificates, because, well, we don't
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compensate, but don't emit in the first place.
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## Don't take our word
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But why should you believe us? Maybe all those nice pictures we post
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are just taken from a stock photograph website? And the answer is:
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You don't need to.
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## Inspect yourself
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Instead of believing us, we invite you to visit us,
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the [Data Center Light](/u/projects/data-center-light/) in the heart
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of [Digital Glarus](/u/projects/digital-glarus/). We invite you to
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visit, to take pictures, to convince yourself. To post the pictures
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and to share it.
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To have a look at the hydro power plant (its loud!), the solar panels
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(luckily not loud) and the server infrastructure. You will not
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even find any cooling mechanism, because we don't cool our servers.
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## Visit and stay
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If just visiting to find out whether or not our claim is true sounds
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like wasting a lot of resources, then why don't you even stay with us
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and work or relax?
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We can provide you with a place to sleep and stay over in the
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[Hacking Hotel](/u/projects/hacking-hotel/) or the
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[Digital Chalet](/u/projects/digital-chalet/), where you can work with
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a 10 Gbit/s connection that goes directly to the data center.
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## Why?
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Here at ungleich we believe that full transparency is required to
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establish trust. This is also why we launched the
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[Open Infrastructure
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project](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki),
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which describes our internal infrastructure. This is also why Data
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Center Light is solely based on Open Source Software.
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And on top of all of this, we think that Glarus is already worth a
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visit just for enjoying the very pretty view. Glarus is a lot like a
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fairy tale, just in reality.
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## How to visit
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Just reach out to us by email (info at ungleich.ch),
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[chat](https://chat.with.ungleich.ch) or
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[twitter](https://twitter.com/ungleich) and we will share information
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of how and when to best reach us with you.
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