Sustainability
File sharing that doesn’t cost the earth.
Renewable power, an efficient data centre in Europe, no advertising machine behind it, and a tenth of the profit protecting rainforest.
Where the power comes from
From a river in Europe to your client’s download.
And 10% of the profit goes to Rainforest Trust, to buy and protect standing tropical forest.
Powered by rivers, not coal.
Yungle runs at Hetzner in Germany, on electricity from renewable hydropower. The data centre runs at a PUE of 1.13 — very little energy is spent on anything but the servers themselves — and holds ISO 27001 and EMAS certification.
- 100% renewable electricity
- An efficient data centre, not a generic cloud region
- In Europe, under European environmental rules
A tenth of the profit protects rainforest.
Ten percent of Yungle’s profit goes to Rainforest Trust, which buys and protects standing tropical forest. Not offsets, not a certificate — land that stays forest.
Nothing about you is the product.
There are no ads, no ad trackers and no data sold, ever. The page statistics Yungle keeps are cookieless and anonymous. A service that earns from subscriptions has no reason to collect more than it needs.
Storing less is the cheapest saving.
Free transfers delete themselves after 7 days, and on a paid account you can set an expiry on anything that should clean itself up. The greenest file is the forgotten copy that was never kept.
What we don’t claim
- We do not claim to be carbon neutral, and we buy no offsets to say so.
- Renewable electricity covers running the servers. Making the hardware, and the networks your files cross, have a footprint we do not measure.
- The ten percent is of profit, not of revenue.
Questions, answered.
Ask us something elseIs sending a file really bad for the environment?
One transfer is small. What adds up is storage nobody uses: copies kept for years on always-on disks. That is why free transfers expire, and why expiry is something you control on a paid account.
How do you know the power is renewable?
It is how Hetzner supplies its German data centres, and it is part of why Yungle is hosted there rather than with a large US cloud provider. The certifications named on this page are Hetzner’s.
Where does the rainforest money go?
To Rainforest Trust, a charity that buys and protects threatened tropical forest together with local partners.
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