The blog is still "wasting" or "leveraging" the same amount of power as it did before. The money invested / and the solar cells could have been used to mitigat

The blog is still "wasting" or "leveraging" the same amount of power as it did before. The money invested / and the solar cells could have been used to mitigate the carbon footprint for other power uses, but instead it's being used here for the blog. Shutting down the blog is how to get back ahead, if your goal is to reduce carbon footprint. just pointing out that the carbon footprint of the blog and the carbon mitigation of the investment are independent events, they don't need to be tied together.