Computer systems, including cloud services, contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. This is because fossil fuels are often burnt to generate the energy they consume.

A greenhouse gas is any gas in the atmosphere which absorbs heat, keeping the planet’s atmosphere warmer than it otherwise would be. These include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.

Cabbit is a cloud service that provides you with the means to track and mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the resources you use.

Cabbit provides you with clear and straightforward monthly reporting on the servers you run, their activity levels and associated emissions. You can access these reports through the Cabbit management console.

We offset the greenhouse gas emissions produced by buying carbon credits in sustainable projects. The projects that we invest in are independently audited by the Verified Carbon Standards (VCS) programme, the world’s leading voluntary program for the certification of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects. The VCS ensures that the emission reductions claimed by these projects are actually occurring. Cabbit ECO then provides you with monthly statistics on the amount of carbon that we have offset on your behalf.

Our datacentres have been designed with efficiency in mind. Our power distribution systems have been designed to minimise electrical losses, ensuring that we consume less energy. We use an efficient “free cooling” system to cool Cabbit’s servers, reducing our need for energy hungry mechanical chillers by 40%. Our hosting rooms are highly insulated to ensure that cooling isn’t wasted, so that we use the minimum amount of resources to keep Cabbit running.

Cabbit minimises the carbon overhead involved in manufacturing equipment through a programme of using good quality refurbished equipment. For security and safety reasons, we always install new hard disks into the Cabbit servers.