Iceland’s steam offers cleaner future for the cloud

timesplus.co.uk (Feb 20 2012)

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   Iceland has turned to the internet and to its own extraordinary natural resources in its efforts to refocus an economy still bearing the scars of the country’s banking collapse.

   A new venture led by Verne Global, a British company set up by veterans of the American data centre industry, will create the world’s first data centre powered entirely by geothermal and hydro-electric energy.

   It is hoped that it could be a trend-setter for the industry and for Iceland. The likes of Facebook, Google and Yahoo! have all investigated the country in the past but have been put off by the lack of connectivity.

   However, sub-sea cables have been installed to solve that issue and, according to Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ossur Skarpheoinsson: “This is the beginning of a new chapter of the industrial life of Iceland. When something is new, you need someone to go first. Verne is ...

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