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    1. A Zero Emissions Data Center For Iceland

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      A Zero Emissions Data Center For Iceland
      EarthTechlingA Zero Emissions Data Center For IcelandEarthTechlingThe facility was designed to take advantage of Iceland's chilly climate with free cooling 365 days a year. More information on the project will be available on the Colt/Verne Global Data Center website. Colt_Verne Global Data Center.and more »
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    2. Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate

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      Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate
      Building a data center that minimizes use of fossil fuels is one of the gargantuan tasks facing the IT industry, yet at least one company has a simple solution: move to Iceland. With cooling freely provided by nature and access to both geothermal and hydroelectric energy, the UK-based co-location vendor Verne Global says it is on the verge of opening a “100% carbon neutral” data center before ...
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    3. Iceland opens carbon neutral data centre

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      Iceland opens carbon neutral data centre
      IIceland has opened a new 100 percent carbon neutral data centre site that will support UK and US companies wanting to save money and widen their green IT strategies. UK firm Verne Global is the first company to open a data centre at the 18-hectare Keflavik site which was previously used by the military, including NATO operations. Also in this channel News In Depth How-Tos Blogs Slideshows Related Articles AMD stock inside trader in fight over cash gains How much profit he made illegitimately is disputed >> Apple fans pay tribute to Steve Jobs in London Flowers, pictures and apples left at Covent Garden store >> Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise The Chinese and intellectual property issues are well in the past as Huawei enters the US and global enterprise market >> Wikileaks Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more The data ...
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    4. Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre

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      Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre
      Datapipe signs up, as the modules start to ship to build Verne Global’s green data centre Verne Global has announced a customer for, and released more details of, the data centre it announced last month in Iceland, powered by renewable energy. Managed services firm Datapipe will deliver what it calls “green cloud” services from equipment installed in the data centre that Verne is building in the former NATO airbase in Kevlavik, Iceland. While Verne finishes the preparation of the building, Colt is shipping a modular data centre, which will be up and running before the end of the year. First of many? Verne gets its warehouse ready “The modules are now in the shipping process,” said Verne’s CEO Jeff Monroe, speaking to eWEEK Europe at the NetEvents press summit in Frascati, Italy. The data centre, apparently the first external order Colt has had for its modular product, will ...
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    5. Verne Global launches first dual-sourced renewably powered data center; Datapipe on board by Doug Mohney

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      Verne Global launches first dual-sourced renewably powered data center; Datapipe on board by Doug Mohney
      Verne Global – the sponsor of Green Data Center News – has formally announced the world’s first dual-sourced 100 percent renewably powered data center.  Datapipe, a provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, is the first announced customer. After you get through the fact that having dual-sourced 100 percent renewable – hydro and geothermal – power is just cool, there’s also the fact power is cheap in Iceland and there’s “Free” cooling due to the location close to the Arctic Circle.  Verne is estimating the combination of lower-cost power and free cooling could save operational costs of up to 50 percent over a data center located in New York or Europe.  Last week, I wrote about Verne’s selection of Colt to provide a climate-customized modular data center option for rapid build-out of facilities at the company’s 18-hectare campus in Keflavik, Iceland. The Colt ...
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    6. Datapipe Goes Modular With Verne in Iceland

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      Datapipe Goes Modular With Verne in Iceland
      Managed hosting provider Datapipe will be the first tenant in Verne Global’s new data center in Iceland, deploying customer servers in a factory-built modular design housed within a former NATO command center. The combination of a modular design and the Iceland location provide Datapipe with an unusual trifecta – a highly energy efficient facility, powered entirely by renewable energy, with stable energy pricing. “Verne Global has engineered an environmentally sustainable data centre that will enable Datapipe to expand into a new market while continuing our environmental leadership,” said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe. “Power and cooling efficiencies combined with the strategic geographic location will provide our clients with an option for carbon neutral, enterprise ready IT services and a 100% green cloud.”
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    8. ‘Zero Emissions’ Wholesale Data Center Coming to Iceland

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      ‘Zero Emissions’ Wholesale Data Center Coming to Iceland
      Colt, the British data center specialist, is building what it and partner Verne Global call a “zero emissions” data center slated to come online by year’s end. More News From GigaOm ‘Zero Emissions’ Wholesale Data Center Coming to Iceland Apple Highlights TV Content on iOS in App Store Section ShortForm’s Social Channels Add Videos From Facebook, Twitter More Than 1/3 of U.S. Android Phones Run on 4G Judge May Grant Brief Injunction in Australian iPad Patent Case The new facility, to be located on an old NATO base in Iceland, will run solely on geothermal and hydroelectric power, the availability of which make Iceland attractive for building data centers. Colt built the 37 modules that will make up the 500-square-meter facility and will ship them to Keyflavik, Iceland, for installation next month and to be operational within four months, according to a blog post by Bernard ...
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    11. World's first zero-carbon data centre to be built in Iceland

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      World's first zero-carbon data centre to be built in Iceland
      The GuardianWorld's first zero-carbon data centre to be built in IcelandThe GuardianVerne will offer customers free cooling by using the cold Icelandic air to regulate temperatures. The site is connected to the US and Europe by multiple high-speed cables. Verne plans to expand the site's capacity as demand grows, and says it has laid ...and more »
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    12. Verne Global selects Colt's Modular Data Centre

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      Verne Global selects Colt's Modular Data CentreTelecompaper (subscription)A total of 37 modules will be transported by sea and assembled within weeks at the Verne Global data centre campus in Iceland. Colt has customised its modular design to optimise Iceland's temperate climate to check that free, fresh air cooling is ...and more »
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    13. Greenpeace: Facebook’s Solar Use ‘Encouraging’

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      Greenpeace: Facebook’s Solar Use ‘Encouraging’
      Greenpeace International today commended Facebook for its use of on-site solar panels to supplement utility power at its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The positive comments followed a year of critiques of Facebook over its power sourcing to support its huge new Oregon data center.
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    14. Green challenges in the data center

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      Green challenges in the data center
      “A clean and secure supply of power is critical to today’s data centers and IT facilities” – and there’s certainly no arguing with the evident truth of that statement from Michael Adams, AEG Power Solutions’ global VP of data and IT. With Greenpeace estimating in its recent report, titled Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change, that by 2020 data center power consumption could approach 2m MW hours, the industry has little choice but to look beyond simple energy efficiencies to examine the kind of electricity it will be using in future.
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    15. Iceland Channels Volcanoes to Win Europe’s Energy-Supply Race

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      Iceland Channels Volcanoes to Win Europe’s Energy-Supply Race
      Iceland is doing a feasibility study into building a 1,170- kilometer (727-mile) power cable to Scotland to transport as much as 18 terawatt-hours of geothermal and hydropower a year -- that’s enough to fuel as many as 5 million European homes. The project has the full backing of the government, Industry Minister Katrin Juliusdottir said in an interview. “Icelanders live with earthquakes and volcanic activity but the benefits are that now we can monetize these powers,” said Valdimar Armann, an economist at Reykjavik-based asset manager GAMMA, who estimates annual clean-energy exports could reach about a tenth of the island’s $12 billion economy.
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    16. Iceland Has the World's Cleanest Electricity

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      Iceland Has the World's Cleanest Electricity
      Not many bathing spas would choose to locate next to an electricity plant, let alone plunge visitors into the plant's murky waters. But in Iceland, the HS Orka utility company pumps 50 L of hot brine per second into the sprawling Blue Lagoon pool, which draws more visitors a year than the country's population. But then, there's a lot that's different on this subarctic island where 318,000 people inhabit 103,000 sq. km. (At that density, Manhattan's population would be 224.) They eat puffin. The 68-year-old Prime Minister married her female partner in June. The capital, Reykjavík, elected a comedian as mayor in May. Angry protesters outside Parliament in October tossed not blood but yogurt. "We are a little bit strange," allows Katrin Juliusdottir, the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism. "But strange in an interesting way."
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    17. Large Reno Project to Generate Its Own Power

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      Large Reno Project to Generate Its Own Power
      Data centers are in the business of supplying power, and lots of it. But that usually means creating a mission-critical environment supported by electricity from a local utility. An ambitious new project near Reno, Nevada plans to expand the data center development model to include massive on-site power generation from multiple sources in addition to a power feed from the local utility. The Reno Technology Park is a 2,200 acre property being developed by the Unique Infrastructure Group, which plans to provide at least 300 megawatts of on-site power generation from natural gas, along with on-site renewable energy sources that could provide an additional 140 megawatts. The developers believe the abundant supply of land and power can support up to 1.5 million square feet of data center space, built over time, with the first facilities coming online in early 2012.
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    18. First Look: Opera’s Iceland Data Center

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      First Look: Opera’s Iceland Data Center
      Opera Software has posted a slideshow of photos from its new container data center in Iceland. The company, which develops browser software for mobile devices, is the first customer of the Thor Data Center in Hafnarfjorour. The facility features data center containers from Spanish tech firm AST Global that use fresh air cooling, allowing servers to run without the use of chillers for air conditioning. Opera, which has 110 million users of its browsers, will deploy “a significant part of its electronic data traffic” to the Thor Data Center, the company said. The primary attraction for Opera was the ability to power its servers with renewable energy, a key selling point in Iceland’s pitch for more data center development.
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    19. Google's renewable energy investment pays off, finds 18,890 MW of Geothermal Power

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      Google's renewable energy investment pays off, finds 18,890 MW of Geothermal Power
      Geothermal, unlike other renewable energy resources, can be easily used for 24/7 baseload power — that is, it doesn’t sag and surge with the sun and the wind, which is a problem with solar panels and wind turbines. Geothermal projects are on the rise, although venture capital and private equity investors haven’t yet shown much interest in the capital-intensive sector. Companies tackling geothermal power range from the startup Vancouver-based Magma Energy, which went public last year, to geothermal giants like Ormat Technologies. Google also has an internal solar technology project, as well as an energy-trading subsidiary, Google Energy, which bought 114 MW of wind energy via a wind farm in Iowa owned by NextEra Energy Resources. Google is likely shopping for more clean power to provide its data centers’ vast energy needs and help it with its pledge to go carbon-neutral — could geothermal help with that?
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    20. GreenQloud Carbon-Neutral Data Centre Moves Into Beta

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      GreenQloud Carbon-Neutral Data Centre Moves Into Beta
      GreenQloud has laid plans to open what it claims to be the world’s first carbon-neutral cloud service. The service is entering beta testing at the moment and will go live at the end of the first quarter 2011. The data centre only uses renewable energy provided by the geothermal springs and hydropower available at the centre’s location in Iceland. Eirkur Hrafnsson, GreenQloud’s CEO and co-founder, claimed that this location also makes it possible for companies based in Europe and America to have a common data centre. This would avoid moving data across frontiers and would be cheaper than having to source facilities in two or more countries.
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    21. Iceland: We’ll Fix the Tax Incentives

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      Iceland: We’ll Fix the Tax Incentives
      The government of Iceland says it will take steps to keep the country’s emerging data center industry competitive, responding to concerns that the nation’s tax policies were discouraging potential prospects. As we reported yesterday, some legislators in Iceland have balked at eliminating the value-added tax (VAT) on server equipment, a common incentive in many U.S. states and many European locations. There were reports that IBM is reconsidering plans to take space at a Verne Global project, citing the extra expense of paying taxes on servers housed in Iceland. In a letter to industry leaders, Iceland finance minister Steingrimur Sigfusson said the tax situation would be addressed. “A solution is currently being worked out and will be presented shortly so necessary changes can take effect as soon as possible,” he wrote. “A comparable tax system will enable the Icelandic Data Center industry to enjoy their special competitive advantage.”
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    23. Nano technology could cool the heat from server farms

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      Nano technology could cool the heat from server farms
      The internet may soon be a greener place thanks to new research that looks set to slash the carbon footprint of our surfing by introducing nanotechnology to computer servers. Computer servers are often housed in giant warehouses, known as "server farms" and generate huge amounts of heat, which in turn requires huge amounts of power to fuel cooling systems. Researchers from Sweden's Institute of Technology have discovered that adding some nanoparticles to water can improve its ability to conduct heat by around 60 percent. This nanofluid could then be used in cooling computer servers and reduce the total amount of energy needed to keep temperatures down.
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    24. Greenpeace, Facebook & the Media Megaphone

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      Greenpeace, Facebook & the Media Megaphone
      None of the major facts have changed in the ongoing controversy in which Greenpeace International has objected to Facebook’s energy sourcing for its new data center in Oregon. But the environmental group managed to grab a fresh round of headlines today when a Greenpeace executive wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg restating its existing grievances.
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