Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)

1. Icelandic service provider Skyrr has bought the container-based Thor data centre and aims to get more European organisations to use its renewable-powered services. The Thor data centre, launched in 2010, uses container-based units and more conventional modular systems from AST Modular to deliver IT services that are environmentally friendly because of Iceland’s climate and renewable energy sources. Skyrr, a long-established Icelandic service provider will sell Thor’s services in Scandinavian countries and further afield. More customers on the way Thor’s customers include Opera, which hosts its online web browser proxy service there, and the Nordic supercomputer, a high-performance computing service created jointly by Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Iceland has very cheap renewable energy from geothermal and hydroelectric sources, is only 30 milliseconds from Europe by fibre and has a climate where servers can be cooled using the outside air temperature, claims Benedikt Gröndal, chief executive of Thor Datacenter ... (Read Full Article)

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