Design BrouhahaThis website is beautiful ✿✿
Deux Fleurs is a non profit organization providing hosting without data centers. They are using old computers at home in France, using open source technologies.
Daniel Schwarz 
@MoritzBrouhaha Interesting idea and fun to create something like this, but I wonder how the carbon footprint of old servers compares to modern servers running in a data center? Might be a wash when you consider embedded carbon in the new servers, I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
John LivingstonSeveral studies point out the fact that building new computers has a very high carbon cost. You need to destroy landscapes to extract materials.
Even if old servers consume more electricity, it is better for the environment to keep them as long as possible, instead of just creating more waste.