Category: Geothermal

1. Countries in the News

   (20 articles) Iceland

   (7 articles) Europe

   (1 articles) United Kingdom

2. Organizations in the News

   (10 articles) Verne Global

   (4 articles) LEED

   (4 articles) Google

   (2 articles) Forbes

   (2 articles) Department of Energy

   (2 articles) The Green Grid

   (1 articles) Department of Defense

   (1 articles) National Renewable Energy Laboratory

   (1 articles) Interactive Data Corporation

   (1 articles) CBRE

3. People in the News

   (5 articles) Jeff Monroe

   (4 articles) Tate Cantrell

   (1 articles) Carol Wilson

   (1 articles) Doug Mohney

   (1 articles) Bill Weihl

   (1 articles) David Fialkow

1. Verne Global Aims to Put Iceland on the Data Center Map

   Explore Article tmcnet.com (Feb 11 2010) Geothermal

   Most people would probably have a tough time finding Iceland on a map. Yet entrepreneur Jeff Monroe is trying to get businesses to locate their data center operations there. Monroe, CEO of Verne Global, says Iceland is an ideal place to house select IT applications due to its unique location and environmental features, not to mention a handful of other benefits. Iceland is impacted from cold in the Northern Hemisphere, he notes, but it’s also impacted by the Gulf Stream.
   

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2. Carbon Dioxide, Cap and Trade, and the Data Center

   Explore Article Relocate (Feb 2 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

   Regardless of what you may think about anthropogenic global warming (climate change caused by human activity) or the recent scandal centering on the ethics and motivations of certain climate scientists, carbon dioxide is a substance that is in the political dog house. Residents of member states in the European Union have already seen the institution of a cap and trade system designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through government regulation; residents of the United States may well be in for a similar system. Although data centers generally do not, by themselves, spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, their operation does ...
   

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3. The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects

   Explore Article Forbes.com (Jan 29 2010) Geothermal , Nuclear , Solar , Wind

   The U.S. government, desperate to add jobs to a feeble economy, is looking skyward for help: to the wind and the sun. "We should put more Americans to work building clean energy facilities," Obama said to applause during his State of the Union address Wednesday. Solar and wind power projects tend to appeal to politicians on both sides of the aisle. They are clean and domestic sources of power, and thanks to this government largesse, they are growing fast.
   

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4. What is Google Energy

   Explore Article Biofuels, Renewable Energy & Green (Jan 18 2010) Geothermal

   December 16th 2009 saw internet search engine giant Google advance towards taking a big stake in the seemingly ever-burgeoning energy business sector with its formation of the Google Energy subsidiary. Parallel to the founding of the subsidiary, it also put in a request in conjunction with a federal agency to enter the wholesale market in order to both buy and sell electricity.
   

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5. Iceland Gets Major Data Center Project

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 18 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

   After years of marketing itself as an ideal destination for green data centers, Iceland is about to see the completion of its first major new data center project. Verne Holdings has lined up funding for the first phase of a new data center in a former NATO facility.
   

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6. Warming Up To Iceland

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

   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 ...
   

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7. Will Google Solar Power Its Data Centers?

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 7 2010) Construction , Geothermal , Solar

   Google (GOOG) has formed a new subsidiary to buy and sell power on the wholesale market, and hopes the move will help provide more renewable energy to meet its corporate carbon reduction goals. The company formed Google Energy last month and has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to allow it to participate in the energy markets. “Right now, we can’t buy affordable, utility-scale, renewable energy in our markets,” Google representative Niki Fenwick told CNet. “We want to buy the highest quality, most affordable renewable energy wherever we can and use the green credits.” Target: Data Centers? Google isn’t ...
   

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8. The next decade: Renewable Energy

   Explore Article ABC7.com Green Content (Jan 5 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro , Wind

   The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground. Rooftop Garden (Photo: Adpower99/Dreamstime.) In your apartment, appliances and plumbing fixtures are energy- and water-efficient – something you were able to ...
   

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9. Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

   Explore Article CIO.com (Nov 17 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Geothermal , Hydro

   With data center costs on the rise, Jeff Monroe is always looking for a deal. The CEO of Verne Global, a wholesale data-center hosting company, has searched the world for places that offer cheap power, easy cooling and reliable communications. While energy costs in the United States are uncertain, Iceland, with its seemingly-unlimited renewable energy, cool temperatures and three (soon to be four) transoceanic cables fits the bill perfectly, he says. "We are finding those points on the Earth that are optimized for server operation—Iceland hits on all those points," says Monroe.
   

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10. Transcript: A Green Recovery

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Nov 12 2009) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro

    President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson believes green tech will transform Iceland and could do the same for the U.S. A Fundamental Change Well, first of all, let me say that if we hadn't become a green economy in terms of the energy sector in the last 30 or 40 years, we would have been hit much harder with our present economy crisis. When I was a kid in Iceland, over 80% of our entire energy needs came from imported energy, oil and coal. But the oil crisis in the 1970s made us change that in a fundamental way. So the end ...
    

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11. Lack of global climate deal won't crush green tech

    Explore Article Technology News (Nov 5 2009) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

    People at green-technology companies will likely keep an eye on next month's global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen but they aren't betting their businesses on the outcome. Research and events company Cleantech Group on Thursday released an analysis called "Why Cop15 Doesn't Matter," referring to the 15th conference of international climate change talks scheduled to start December 7 in Copenhagen. With numerous political and economic issues complicating the picture, it would be surprising if a major breakthrough pact emerged next month. But whether there is a binding agreement won't have an immediate impact on the adoption of green technologies, according ...
    

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12. UK: Carbon Trust offers soft loans for efficiency overhaul

    Explore Article edie.net (Oct 27 2009) Geothermal , Wind

    The Carbon Trust is offering expert guidance and £100m in interest-free loans to companies prepared to do away with old, power-hungry equipment and replace it with modern energy-efficient equivalents. The Big Business Refit scrappage scheme, fronted by Theo Paphitis, is offering SMEs up to £400,000 each in unsecured, interest-free loans to replace ageing machinery. At a time when banks are tightening the purse strings, the accessible capital can be mana from heaven for businesses keen to cut costs and improve infrastructure. The repayments are scaled to match the predicted savings from the energy bill, so the up-front costs for the ...
    

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13. Iceland looks to serve the world

    Explore Article BBC NEWS (Oct 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to retreat back from high octane bubble living to nature. Fortunately, there is a lot of that nature to retreat to. It is a breathtaking world of volcanoes, endless prairies and ethereal winter landscapes. Not, you might think, the most obvious place to stick millions of the world’s computer servers which are, for all their uses, rather less attractive. But the country now wants exactly that - to become home to the world’s computing power. Behind all the large internet companies lurk massive and ever growing data centres chock full of servers ...
    

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14. Mauritius Pitches Sea-Cooled Data Centers

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 21 2009) Power and Cooling , Geothermal

    Can the island nation of Mauritius become an international data center hub? Economic development officials in the island chain in the western Indian Ocean believe that Mauritius can become a key hub connecting Africa, Asia and the Middle East. A key part of that pitch is the ocean itself, and its potential to help data center operators slash their cooling costs. The Mauritius Eco-Park plans to develop a system to use sea water air conditioning (SWAC) to support data center tenants. The concept taps deep water currents that bring colder water within two miles of Mauritius.
    

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15. Twittered: Verne Global by Vertatique

    Explore Article Vertatique (Sep 16 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Hydro

    Location is becoming increasingly important to the Green Data Center marketplace. I've previously noted the popularity of the Columbia River Valley for mega data centers due to its inexpensive and low-carbon hydroelectricity, its temperate climate and water for cooling, and its fiber optic infrastructure. An Icelandic data center is now putting location front and center in its promotion. US company Verne Global cites what it calls the "Icelandic Advantage" of its data center:
    

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