Scaleway will increase prices in Dec 2022 due to rising energy costs in Europe
I received this email from Scaleway:
Like many companies, rising energy costs are having an impact on our business. The main reason for this increase is due to soaring gas prices (directly linked to the Ukraine conflict) and, in France specifically, to maintenance delays concerning national nuclear reactors. In the spirit of full transparency, we would like to inform you that, over the Q3 2021-Q3 2022 period, we already experienced an 85% increase in our electricity costs, without affecting your invoice. Unfortunately, the current geopolitical situation suggests that energy prices will continue to rise in 2023.
In addition to energy prices, growing inflation is significantly increasing all costs which are essential to the running of our business. Despite our commitment to offering the best price/performance ratio for our services, we are now forced to increase our prices.
Thus, as of December 1, 2022, we will increase the prices of our offers by an average of 10% for most existing Scaleway solutions (Dedibox and Public Cloud). We have decided to apply this increase by targeting specific product categories and service ranges. We will communicate the detailed list of pricing changes per product line in the next few days.
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[ 48.3 ms ] story [ 694 ms ] threadTo be fair: So far, price increases in most cases only affect cheap hosting providers like Hetzner, Scaleway etc.
Even OVH had some solar PPA, though it's mostly reliant on nuclear power so it is subject to price swings in France. Telenor seems to have invested in a 260 MW wind power plant. https://baxtel.com/news/ovhcloud-s-solar-ppa-with-edf https://baxtel.com/news/telenor-signs-wind-ppa https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/23/ovh_inflation_price_r...
Basically the rest of the market is US companies flooded with money like aws and gcloud, that also sell 'added value' services on top of the bare machines.