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Our NVIDIA GPUs provide powerful hardware for your visualization workloads and the bandwidth needed to accommodate large datasets. Excellent for 3D rendering, AI, and machine learning.

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system perfect for automating software deployment, scaling, and management

Virtual machines of different sizes that you can use for a variety of functions, from hosting websites to building apps.

We believe in the use of hybrid cloud, and we encourage connecting with others. So, we price our Egress traffic at only € 0.05 / GB for traffic that exceeds 100GB. All other traffic is free!

Storage for computing situations that require fast, efficient, and reliable data transportation. Attach one or more volumes to each instance to persist your database, file storage and application, and backup needs.

Object storage (S3) allows for the retention of massive amounts of unstructured data enabling flexible data analysis and retrieval in a storage pool spread over multiple locations.

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How does Leafcloud provide truly green cloud?

Servers use energy to do calculations, all of which is turned into heat and thrown away while cooling. We put our servers where heat is needed – places like swimming pools, apartment complexes, and nursing homes - and replace natural gas for heating with server waste heat.

What actions does Leafcloud take to ensure their cloud is truly green?

By placing servers where heat is needed, we prevent natural gas use in our locations. This means we do not need to use other forms of offsetting to become green; that's why we call it truly green.

Is Leafcloud carbon-negative?

Yes and no, the least consuming workload is the one not started and we do not magically pull CO2 out of the air, this sadly isn't possible. However, the current standard is large data centers cooled with air-conditioning and large apartment complexes heated with natural gas or other fossil fuels. Let's say both use one unit of energy. Because Leafcloud places servers where heat is needed, and the building uses that heat instead of generating it with the equivalent amount of natural gas, we have minus one energy use for society. That's already 'carbon negative' with a new workload and even more when moving a workload from a data center to Leafcloud.

Why is distributing compute across the built environment better than a traditional data center?

Getting waste heat out of data center with a heat network is hard and harder still to do so profitably. (Berenschot analyse restwarmte uit datacenters Hollands Kroon)some text

We do not need to build a new building
We do not need to put new roads on and pipes, power and fiber in the ground
Our locations use more heat than we provide, making it useful throughout the year
Distributing the power required for large scale compute across a larger environment and multiple sources prevents electricity grid congestion, allows for clever power load balancing, and provides workload redundancy.

Does Leafcloud build data centers?

No, Leafcloud uses existing 'green' data centers for our cores that house our storage clusters, and existing structures that require hot water all year round for our Leaf sites; these house our compute servers.

Why is using waste or residual heat from servers so important?

Combating waste. Traditional data centers are large buildings that use massive quantities of energy. Nearly all of that energy generates heat. That heat is then wasted by dispersing it with cooling. Cooling requires yet more energy and often water. The largest cloud providers are among the largest purchasers of green energy and green energy certificates on the planet. Using all that scarce green energy to generate and then throw away heat is wasteful.

What is the potential of waste heat utilization?

The utilization of residual, or waste server heat has greater potential to benefit society than most improvements to cooling efficiency. In fact, being able to use all the server waste heat generated in The Netherlands would provide enough heat for roughly 50% of all showers taken in the country (DDA 2023)
Utilizing server waste heat at scale can transform the cloud sector from liability to asset for the energy transition. The increasing footprint of the cloud and AI sectors, and our increasingly digital society more broadly, deserves a sustainable alternative to the current wasteful industry.

Does Leafcloud use liquid cooling?

Sometimes. There are many solutions for getting waste heat out of servers, we use a mix of them.

Why do traditional cloud providers have such a large carbon footprint?

A large part of the footprint comes from the construction of the facility and required infrastructure (roads, pipes, power, etc.)
Cheap and readily available energy can be considered paramount to the location a new data center is built. In most regions, cheap energy is fossil fuel based and has a large carbon footprint.
Throwing away the heat generated by the servers by cooling them isn’t just a waste, it’s also energy intensive. Cooling servers often adds more than 15% to the energy consumed by a data center and contributes significantly to both the carbon footprint of and the water used by a data center.

Where can I find reports on the impact of my Leafcloud projects?

Coming soon: initially on your invoice, later with added insights on your dashboard, and available in CSRD-ready format.

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Managed Kubernetes? Database solutions or a full AI pipeline? We've got you covered!

Managed Kubernetes? Database solutions or a full AI pipeline?
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