Who knows?
Who knows about this group, other than it's fairly easy to find out that Internap Corporation (INAP on NASDAQ) manage a collection of massive IT / Data Centres scattered throughout North America, parts of Europe and Asia. What's odd about them is how invisible yet huge they are, like the elephant in many rooms that no-one sees.
They have acquired the formerly independent web hosting group based in Montreal known as iWeb, they apparently (again, this isn't very well-known) lease server space to A2hosting.co.uk, GreenGeeks.com and even (perish the thought) GoDaddy.
Why does this matter? On one hand, it doesn't and there's no need to re-invent data centres that already exist. On the other hand, if you accept that some of these big corporations hold more cards relevant to real change, then those who work with inap.com have more clout with them than we do about what inap.com does with their green credentials (how soon they snap to with implementing much-needed changes, given that their shareholders want to see dividends).
It's still a very convoluted, wild-west sort of interweb out there. Many internet hosting providers offer their customers a mixed bag in the year 2019. This data centre facilitator could be planning big changes in how they manage and expand the use of renewable energy for their servers. Or, they may not be doing this.
Either way, if you have a website and you care about the environment, this is one of many invisible companies whose activities and policies need to be more visible to all of us.
17 September 2019
Unprompted review