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Leafcloud
Company blog · leaf.cloud/blogsystemsprogramming
Leafcloud is the company blog at leaf.cloud, writing about systems and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Homepage of Leafcloud, a Dutch cloud provider that runs OpenStack-based servers in urban buildings and reuses the waste heat. Commenters cite it as an example of heat-reuse hosting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sovereign Dutch cloud provider alternative with sustainable infrastructure in Amsterdam. European Cloud with Kubernetes, GPU, virtual machines & databases. Nederlandse green cloud with OpenStack, open-source, and GDPR compliance. Climate-positive alternative to hyperscalers.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
What Hacker News says?
There's also Leafcloud, they put their servers in urban buildings and recycle the waste heat: https://leaf.cloud/
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on “European Cloud Computing Platforms”Submitted My best tricks to deploy to Kubernetes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's missing out on small, yet good and reliable providers. Some examples: Tilaa (NL) - https://www.tilaa.com/en/ Offering compute, storage, databases, containers, you name it. And having personal experience with these guys I can tell you they are awesome. Want to host your stuff specifically in a CO2 neutral DC? They can do that too. Leafcloud (NL) - https://leaf.cloud/ Green OpenStack based cloud provider Stuxhost…
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on “European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers”Submitted A green alternative to the energy waste of datacenters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPrior art: https://qarnot.com/en https://www.leaf.cloud/ https://www.cloudandheat.com/ I wonder how that worked out, given the development of energy prices...
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on “Install a server in your house, get free hot water!”These guys [1] used to be called Nerdalize and iirc their first iteration looked a lot like this. I think they have since moved to a model of a few select locations where nodes are closer to each other. [1] - https://www.leaf.cloud EDIT: fixed link
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on “Install a server in your house, get free hot water!”