Iceland looks to serve the world

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1. “ The data centre industry now is on par with the airline industry as far as the carbon footprint. ”

   By Jeff Monroe

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• Verne Global
• Jeff Monroe

1. Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to retreat back from high octane bubble living to nature. Fortunately, there is a lot of that nature to retreat to. It is a breathtaking world of volcanoes, endless prairies and ethereal winter landscapes. Not, you might think, the most obvious place to stick millions of the world’s computer servers which are, for all their uses, rather less attractive. But the country now wants exactly that - to become home to the world’s computing power. Behind all the large internet companies lurk massive and ever growing data centres chock full of ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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