There is a small green badge in the footer of this site. It says that otomoai.com.my runs on green hosting, verified by The Green Web Foundation. You can run the same check yourself. This post explains what that check looked at, what it did not look at, and why we bothered.
What the check actually verified
The Green Web Foundation is a non-profit based in Amsterdam and Berlin. It keeps a public dataset of hosting providers that have shown it evidence that their servers run on green power. When you enter a domain, it looks up the IP address the site is served from and matches it against that dataset.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Green | Yes |
| Evidence on file | Our hosting provider's climate commitments post and its 2023 emissions inventory |
Our hosting provider is the company that serves this website to your browser. Its stated commitment is to match 100% of its global energy use with energy purchased from renewable sources, and to remove, by 2025, all greenhouse gases emitted by powering its network since it launched in 2010. The Green Web Foundation accepts several kinds of evidence for a listing, from direct renewable generation data and guarantee-of-origin certificates through to carbon offsets as a last resort. From 1 October 2026 it will stop accepting offsets at all.
What this is not
Being precise about the limits is the whole point of showing the badge, so here they are.
- It is not an ESG certification. There is no body in Malaysia that certifies a company as "ESG compliant", and we do not claim to be one.
- It covers the hosting of this website only. It says nothing about the laptops we work on, the AI providers our products call, or the electricity in our office.
- It is our hosting provider's evidence, checked by a third party, not ours. We chose the host; we did not generate the power.
- It is a point-in-time result. The badge image is fetched live from the foundation on every page load, so if the result ever changes, the badge changes with it.
Why a small Malaysian business should care
Two reasons, one about energy and one about paperwork.
| Year | Global data centre consumption | Share of world electricity |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 (estimate) | About 415 TWh | About 1.5% |
| 2030 (IEA base case) | About 945 TWh | Just under 3% |
Every website and every AI product, ours included, draws on that consumption. Where the power comes from is one of the few choices a small company gets to make about it, and it costs nothing extra to choose a host that has already documented its answer.
The paperwork reason is newer. In October 2023 the Securities Commission's affiliate Capital Markets Malaysia published the Simplified ESG Disclosure Guide (SEDG) for SMEs in supply chains. It gives large Malaysian companies a standard set of questions to put to their suppliers, and gives the suppliers a standard way to answer. Version 2, released in 2025, carries 38 disclosures and is aligned with the ASEAN guide launched in April 2025. If you sell to a listed company, a bank or a government body, expect those questions to arrive.
When they do, an answer you can point to beats an answer you have to argue for. Green hosting is a small line under the Environment heading, but it is a line with a third-party check behind it. That is the standard we hold every mark in our footer to: the SSM BizTrust badge is verified by SSM, the green badge is verified by The Green Web Foundation, and the marks we issue ourselves say so on their own pages.
What we do about it
Nothing dramatic. We keep the site on a host with documented green power, we keep pages light so they move fewer bytes, and we say only what the evidence supports. When we build a website for a client, the same host and the same badge are available to them, and we will show them how to run the check.
Get in touch if you want to know what this looks like for your own site.
Sources
- The Green Web Foundation, Green Web Check result for otomoai.com.my (green: true, hosted by Cloudflare), retrieved 14 September 2026. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=otomoai.com.my
- The Green Web Foundation, About page ("a non-profit organisation working towards a fossil-free internet by 2030"; registered as Stichting The Green Web Foundation in the Netherlands). https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/about/
- The Green Web Foundation, "How does the Green Web Check work?" https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/support/how-does-the-green-web-check-work/
- The Green Web Foundation, "What we accept as evidence of green power" (offsets no longer accepted from 1 October 2026). https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/what-we-accept-as-evidence-of-green-power/
- Cloudflare, "Cloudflare: 100% Renewable & Zeroing Out Emissions Back to Day 1," 27 July 2021. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-committed-to-building-a-greener-internet/
- Cloudflare, 2023 Emissions Inventory (as filed with The Green Web Foundation). https://media.greenweb.org/uploads/Cloudflare_2023_Emissions_Inventory.pdf
- IEA, "Energy and AI," April 2025: data centre electricity demand. https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai
- Capital Markets Malaysia, Simplified ESG Disclosure Guide (SEDG) for SMEs in Supply Chains: released October 2023; Version 2 (38 disclosures) aligned with the ASEAN SEDG of April 2025. https://sedg.capitalmarketsmalaysia.com/
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