Environment

Our Infrastructure Footprint

hostile.eco is a static website with a small database layer. We publish measured facts about our stack rather than extrapolated carbon numbers — in keeping with our editorial principle that raw data beats framed estimates.

Hosting — Netlify

All pages are served by Netlify, which has been carbon-neutral since 2021 and runs on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure that purchases renewable energy matched to its usage. Static assets are served from Netlify's global CDN, meaning most requests are served from the edge node nearest the visitor rather than round-tripping to a single origin.

Database — Supabase (AWS eu-west-2)

Our live energy data platform — four point two million rows of UK generation, carbon intensity, and interconnector flow data — runs on a Supabase PostgreSQL instance in AWS region eu-west-2 (London/Ireland). The EU grid has a comparatively low carbon intensity by international standards, and AWS has committed to powering its operations with 100% renewable energy.

Content pipeline — Anthropic (Claude)

Research synthesis and editorial drafting use Anthropic's Claude via API. Each article runs through a multi-stage pipeline of research, grading, and voice rewriting before human editorial review. Token usage is logged; our typical article is a single-digit-dollar inference cost.

Machine-readable disclosure

We publish a /carbon.txt file under the Green Web Foundation's carbon.txt standard, pointing to this page and listing our upstream service dependencies. The file is validated against carbontxt.org/tools/validator.

What We Stand For: The Abundance Coalition

hostile.eco is pro-energy abundance. Environmental outcomes improve when energy is cheap, reliable, and dense — not when it is rationed. Rationing concentrates political power over who gets to heat their home, travel, or run a business. Abundance distributes it.

We are hostile to the degrowth framing that treats energy consumption itself as the problem. The technologies and uses of energy we defend:

Nuclear

Fission now, small modular reactors next, fusion when it matures. Nuclear is the only proven dense, dispatchable, low-carbon baseload. It uses less land per unit of energy than any alternative, kills fewer people per terawatt-hour than any alternative, and is the single technology most responsible for decarbonising any country that has actually decarbonised at scale.

Evidence: Deaths per terawatt-hour · Britain's SMR gamble · Solar vs nuclear land use

Hydro

The most energy-dense renewable. Works around the clock. The UK has under-built hydro relative to what its geography permits, in part because the political weather favours wind and solar even where hydro would be a better siting match. Norway and Canada run national grids dominated by hydro because they built for their terrain. We should, too, where we can.

Bitcoin

Often treated as an environmental villain; in practice, a flexible grid-balancing load. Bitcoin miners buy power at marginal prices, run where electricity is cheap or stranded, and can ramp off in seconds — making them a better grid partner than most industries. They monetise curtailed renewables, fund build-out in regions where subsidies don't reach, and consume flared gas that would otherwise be vented. Defensible as an energy application, not an energy drain.

Related: FCA's crypto exodus

AI Compute

The next industrial demand layer. Microsoft's restart of Three Mile Island for Constellation Energy, Amazon's Talen Energy nuclear deal, Google's Kairos small-modular-reactor power purchase agreement — all point the same way. AI is pulling nuclear forward. It is doing in five years what two decades of climate rhetoric failed to do: building a commercial coalition for new nuclear. That is a pro-environment outcome, not an anti-.

On Net-Zero Framing and Carbon Tax

We are sceptical of net-zero as the organising frame for policy, and of carbon tax as the mechanism. Both tend to concentrate decision-making in the hands of the state and of NGOs whose incentives we document elsewhere on this site. Environmental outcomes come from better technology, cheaper energy, and wealthier societies that can afford to protect land, water, and wildlife. They do not come from rationing, rent extraction, or the virtue-signalling purchase of offset paper.

The evidence is already on the record. Germany's Energiewende spent roughly half a trillion euros to end up more carbon-intensive than nuclear France. Britain pays France for French nuclear electricity while decommissioning its own fleet. Our energy import bill has tripled in a decade. None of these outcomes required new framing — they required different choices.

Evidence: Energiewende lessons Britain ignores · Britain pays France for nuclear · Britain's 40% import dependency · Where the £24bn import bill goes

Where This Leaves Us in the .eco Community

We registered the .eco domain because we are environmental advocates. Our disagreement with the mainstream environmental framing is about how, not whether. We think energy abundance, nuclear baseload, and dense generation are the fastest path to clean rivers, protected species, and restored habitat — because abundance frees up land, capital, and political attention from low-density renewable overbuild.

We publish carbon.txt, display the .eco trust mark, and disclose our infrastructure for the same reason we cite every statistic in every article: transparency is the baseline. Framing is where we disagree, and that disagreement is the work.