Data centres find Iceland hospitable

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1. “ For customers interested in a typical data centre deployment, we have an air solution which requires no additional chillers at any point during the year. ”

Entities Mentioned

• Europe
• Iceland
• United Kingdom
• Verne Global
• Tate Cantrell

1. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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