Verne Global - Lowest Data Center TCO

Brockmann & Company (May 25 2010)

1. Iceland has been all in the news in the past year or so. First with the collapse of its financial institutions and then as the home of the volcano responsible for disrupting Northern Europe's airspace. Verne Global, a venture-backed data center developer, hopes to make Iceland famous for a third and better reason: as the home of the lowest total cost of operation data center. To some this might seem a little unusual, but to those in the know, this is what brilliant sounds like. Data centers are a major consumer of electrical energy, representing at least 1.5% of US electrical energy consumption, which may be greater in other markets depending on the need for cooling. Innovations in scaling them and packaging data center functions into a container that can be dropped in place and just plugged in have been discussed in this blog too. And, electrical energy ... (Read Full Article)

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