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 Iceland, as anywhere in the world, there are all kinds of natural disasters to deal with. As it turns out, NATO is pretty good at picking strategic locations. ”
      By Jeff Monroe

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  1. Data center weathers Iceland volcano

    Data Center (May 4 2010)

    1. Data center weathers Iceland volcano Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global, said the erupting volcano in Iceland has turned out to be a great real-world test for his company's decision to locate a 44-acre data center at a former NATO Command Center in Keflavik. It helps that the facility is being constructed in hardened underground bunkers. But the site is also set on 1.5 million-year-old bedrock on the west side of the country, well clear of the plume of ash spread by a prevailing western wind. And while European air traffic sat grounded, flights never stopped taking off in Keflavik. (Read Full Article)

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