Smartbunker is powered exclusively by wind-generated electricity from Ecotricity

“As the UK’s first zero carbon energy data centre, Smartbunker has moved the data hosting industry forward, and is clearly setting an important precedent. We are pleased to be partnering with a company whose focus is on both service excellence, and utilising renewable ‘deep green’ energy from Ecotricity that delivers zero carbon emissions.”

Dale Vince OBE, Ecotricity - Founder & Managing Director

Endorsed by WWF and the Soil Association, Ecotricity is the world’s first renewable energy provider, and the largest alternative electricity supplier in Europe.

At Smartbunker we’re proud to count Ecotricity as a technology partner (and indeed a customer). And we're in good company. The Co-op Bank, Fresh & Wild, Ben & Jerry’s, The Guardian, Sainsbury’s, Body Shop, Ford and Michelin – they’ve all made the switch to Ecotricity.

Why wind energy?

Surveys consistently show that over 80% of people in the UK are in favour of wind energy.

Wind is the world’s fastest growing energy source, and in the UK we’re lucky enough to have enough of it to power the country 3 or 4 times over, making Ecotricity’s commitment to powering the UK with wind energy totally viable, as well as ecologically desirable. Wind turbines provide 100% clean energy, are aesthetically inoffensive (some would say beautiful) and have an exemplary industrial safety record.

They’re also genuinely sustainable. Every unit of green electricity from wind power replaces one unit of electricity normally generated from conventional polluting sources such as coal. And the energy used in manufacturing and erecting a wind turbine is paid back in the first 3 to 6 months of operation. At the end of a wind turbine’s lifetime, typically 30 years, it can be removed, leaving behind no lasting legacy.

Wind energy is the intelligent source of power for the data centre of the future. Smartbunker uses nothing else – zero carbon, zero risk, 100% sustainability.

Smartbunker is using Ecotricity’s New Energy Plus service with electricity generated from 100% renewable sources; in this case the energy is derived through wind turbines. Wind is a sustainable fuel source, and also the world’s fastest growing energy source.