LONDON, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- STRATO Becomes 'First Buyer' of Climate-Friendly Power Supply as Part 
of its Climate Protection Plan

STRATO, Europe's second largest web host, is becoming the first company
to power its high performance computer centres entirely with renewable
energy. From January 2008 STRATO data centres will be 100% C02 free, enabling
STRATO to reduce its CO2 emissions by approximately 15,000 tons per year.

STRATO has already reduced energy consumption by 30% per customer over
the past 18 months through energy-efficient hardware, intelligent solutions
in building services engineering and platform-optimised software. It is using
optimised chips from Sun Microsystems that conserve 90% of the energy on a
CPU basis as compared to its previous system and AMD processors that conserve
75% of the energy used on its dedicated servers in Berlin. In addition, it is
developing a highly efficient air-cooling system - as used in the Airbus 
380 - with the University of Berlin.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO comments, "Instead of depending on
individual eco-packets and eco-servers, we are transferring the entire energy
supply for our product portfolio to renewable energy without raising our
prices. We're proving that acting responsibly in environmental matters is a
realistic option, even in the highly competitive web hosting market."

With the acquisition of climate-neutral energy for its computer centres,
STRATO is becoming one of the largest customers of the German company
NaturEnergie AG. A supply contract, effective from January 2008, guarantees
STRATO the simultaneous production of the required amount of power at the
moment of its consumption in the computer centres. The electrical current is
generated from river water in hydro-electrical power plants on the upper
Rhine.

Purchasing renewable energy is more expensive, but affordable for Strato
thanks to the 30% cut in electricity usage per customer. The company is
committed to adopting measures that will help decelerate the rate of climate
change. Concludes Schmidt: "All companies should be doing something to slow
the process of climate change. Our view is that using renewable energy not
only helps the climate, it also saves on your bills."

About STRATO:

- STRATO, based in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest
European web hosting provider. It currently hosts 3.5 million domains and
has more than a million customer contracts.

- STRATO operates across Europe, including Germany, Great
Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Spain, offering
locally-adapted, comprehensive, all-inclusive packages, high-performance

- dedicated and virtual servers, as well as professional online
shops.

- STRATO, a 100% subsidiary of the freenet AG, provides
transparent quality through TUV certification: in addition to process
management (ISO 9001) and customer support (MS ServiceQuality), both
high-performance computer centres have been certified according to ISO
27001.

- STRATO's computer centres will be exclusively run on
renewable energy which is 100% CO2-free from January 2008.