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Data centres find Iceland hospitable
computerworlduk.com (Feb 15 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling
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A new front is being opened in the race to provide inexpensive data centre space, and it's located on a former NATO base in Iceland. A data center co-location company called Verne Global decided that Iceland would be the perfect place for its first facility because of the country's climate, natural resources and network connectivity to the United States and Europe.
The Icelandic site offers access to geothermal and hydroelectric energy, free cooling every day of the year, and multi-terabit-per-second connectivity to America and Europe. Verne Global, which plans to build efficient data centres throughout the world, is in the middle of construction in Iceland and will be able to serve customers by year end.
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