[ENHANCEMENT] Add Digital Ocean (once they publish some meaningful data)

[mrchrisadams]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have a number of providers who use Digital Ocean, and want their sites to be marked as green, and have in good faith chosen regions that you might expect to be 'green', or running on green energy.

Describe the solution you'd like

We'd hear directly from Digital Ocean about which of their regions are cited in datacentres where the emissions from the use of the digital infra is accounted for. We outline what we accept below:

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/what-we-accept-as-evidence-of-green-power/

Describe alternatives you've considered

We offer a mechanism for the downstream provider to assume responsibility suppliers 'upstream' to them, if they can quantify the emissions and demonstrate they are taking steps to account for them, as we outline above.

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/support/im-using-a-cloud-provider-why-is-my-site-showing-as-grey/

We have a very high level estimation tool in the form of CO2.js to get an idea of carbon emissions, but the better scenario would be to extend something like Cloud Carbon Footprint to support Digital Ocean's line of services.

This would allow any customer of DO to quantify and account for the emissions based on their actual usage data, rather than a top down model that might be making very different assumptions to the reality of how DO's services are used.

Additional context

Here's the response passed to us from the Digital Ocean support representative when the customer asked this:

Hey there,

Thank you for taking the time to raise a case with us!

I understand you'd like to know if it is possible to green list your domains.

Upon reviewing your account, I see that all your Droplets are in the FRA1 region. We do not have official documentation on our end. However, I can give you the details of our DC in the FRA1 region.

Our DC provider for FRA1 is Interxion [REDACTED ADDRESS]. Here are the details of their sustainability: https://www.interxion.com/why-interxion/sustainability

I hope this helps! Let us know if you need any further assistance from us. We're here to help!

Kind Regards,
REDACTED SUPPORT STAFF NAME

If we know which regions are in regions where the DC operators are already accounting for the emissions, we can mark them as green, but we need this from DO themselves, so we know we're not misrepresenting them.

[h0jeZvgoxFepBQ2C]

Hi,

Digital Ocean has been listed successfully in the past year, but right now it appears again as not whitelisted again? Could you take a look?