2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ In the future, [datacentres] will be one of the major ways to export green energy beyond the borders of Iceland. ”
      By Ossur Skarpheoinsson
    2. “ Every opportunity has some components of it that are hard work. ”
      By Tate Cantrell

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  1. Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

    ZDNet UK (Feb 10 2012)

    1. Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

      The country hopes to foster a datacenter industry, so it can use its energy beyond the three aluminum refineries currently operating in the country, Ossur Skarpheoinsson, Iceland's minister of foreign affairs, said on Thursday. "In the future, [datacentres] will be one of the major ways to export green energy beyond the borders of Iceland," Skarpheoinsson told ZDNet UK. "My vision is that during this century we will move away from this basic production of aluminum smelters that are important to our economy and use [the energy] for a green economy." Iceland gets the overwhelming majority of its energy from geothermal and hydroelectric sources, Skarpheoinsson said. These are environmentally friendly, but unlike natural gas or petroleum, are difficult to package up and export. Some utility companies are working on high-voltage undersea powercables to deliver the power to Europe, but it will be years before this happens, ZDNet UK understands.

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