1. Warming Up To Iceland

    Forbes.com (Jan 11 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

    1. Warming Up To Iceland Moving data centers out of the big cities to places where power and cooling is cheaper has been under way for the better part of a decade. Companies like Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) are locating data centers in the cool and windy Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Others have moved to Arizona, where nuclear power is plentiful and cheap. Still others have buried data centers beneath the ground in old mines, where the temperature is always cool. Data centers are expected to move to even more extreme locations over the next decade. Forbes caught up with Tate Cantrell, chief technology officer at Verne Global--a data center developer based in Iceland and Washington, D.C., to talk about the shifts and what's driving them. (Read Full Article)

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