What's behind Iceland's first major data center

ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

1. A few weeks ago, I saw this article on The Swedish Wire about how several Swedish northern towns were promoting themselves as ideal locales for data centers. The article pointed out that an undisclosed “major U.S. Internet company, widely believed to be Facebook, is planning to build a giant data center outside the town center of Luleå,” in Sweden. It was around this time, too, that Google announced the opening of its data center in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that I got a call from representatives for Verne Global, which was getting ready to open the doors to its new data center in Iceland. There's something about those chilly northern locales that are becoming the hot spots for data centers. Verne Global’s 18-hectacre (about 44.5 acres) campus in Keflavik, Iceland, is 100% carbon neutral and draws its commercial power from Iceland ... (Read Full Article)

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