Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)

...odular systems from AST Modular to deliver IT services that are environmentally friendly because of Iceland’s climate and renewable energy sources. Skyrr, a long-established Icelandic service provider will s......very cheap renewable energy from geothermal and hydroelectric sources, is only 30 milliseconds from Europe by fibre and has a climate where servers can be cooled using the outside air temperature, claims Be... (Read Full Article)

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Are Clouds Green?

Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 20 2011)

...tes - every click uses energy somewhere. But a new breed of data centres is opening up in northern Europe - cooled by the chilly air and powered by cheap renewable energy. Facebook became the latest compa......ced plans to build a new data centre in northern Sweden. Join One Planet in search of the cloud in Iceland this week. We visit a former NATO air base which now houses the first ... (Read Full Article)

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Colt and Verne Global Introduce World’s First Dual Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre in Iceland inShare

Explore Telecom Review (Dec 10 2011)

...ne Global has selected Colt’s Modular Data Centre for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. This is the world's first mission critical data centre with zero-emissions to be manufactured and ...... for up to 20 years – a significant consideration in light of rising long-term electricity costs in Europe, the UK and US. All of the electricity comes from two sources of 100% renewable energy, geothermal ... (Read Full Article)

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Emerald plans new cloud cable to the US

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 5 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...mate suits the centres, which require huge amounts of power to run and to prevent from overheating. Iceland, located between North America and northern Europe, and recovering from its own economic crisis, hopes the new, larger cable will help it to benefit f... (Read Full Article)

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100Gbps Trans-Atlantic Link For NY, Ireland And Iceland

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 2 2011) Power and Cooling , Networking

...data centres Wait years for a fibre-optic cable, and two come along at once. The United States and Europe will be soon linked by not one, but two new trans-Atlantic 100Gbps cables. The Emerald Express – s......ause it touches down in Ireland – is a £191 million submarine cable system which also has a spur to Iceland on its way from New York. It is expected to be finished by late ... (Read Full Article)

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US$300m transatlantic fibre network to arrive on Ireland’s west coast

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 2 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...inance and digital media companies in the West of Ireland due to it being the last footfall between Europe and the US. Iceland enters the equation because, like Ireland, it is also a preferred location for data centres in term... (Read Full Article)

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Emerald Networks, Inc.: $300m transatlantic fibre optic cable launched

Explore StreetInsider.com (Dec 2 2011) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Networking

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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

Explore ciol.com (Dec 2 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...mate suits the centers, which require huge amounts of power to run and to prevent from overheating. Iceland, located between North America and northern Europe, and recovering from its own economic crisis, hopes the new, larger cable will help it to benefit f... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

Explore 1450 WHTC Holland's Hometown Station (Dec 1 2011)

...mate suits the centers, which require huge amounts of power to run and to prevent from overheating. Iceland, located between North America and northern Europe, and recovering from its own economic crisis, hopes the new, larger cable will help it to benefit f... (Read Full Article)

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Lifeline for Iceland’s data centre hopes

Explore FT.com / Comment / Blogs (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Networking

...ng is a fast data connection to the rest of the world. There are currently three subsea cables from Iceland, one to the north of Scotland, one to Denmark and one to the northern tip of North America. But non......starting to be in need of updating. Around 79 per cent of the world’s internet traffic goes between Europe and the US, and demand is expected to outstrip the ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...mate suits the centres, which require huge amounts of power to run and to prevent from overheating. Iceland, located between North America and northern Europe, and recovering from its own economic crisis, hopes the new, larger cable will help it to benefit f... (Read Full Article)

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Trans Atlantic cable Iceland landing point identified

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 2 2011)

...ue to this innovative project.” “ThorDC is the natural staging point between the US and continental Europe. Iceland has a highly attractive energy cost and low carbon footprint which is a must for heavy energy uses ... (Read Full Article)

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AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks' Pre-Sales Manager for International Network Development

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Nov 1 2011)

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AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks' Pre-Sales Manager for International ...

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

...cility it bills as the first "zero emissions data center." Ragnar Horvardarson, a spokesman for the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, said that the Verne Global facility is Iceland's first data center, but he's aware of four more in various stages of development. It's not just th......tions make building there attractive. And for an American company like Facebook, housing servers in Europe can cut down the number ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Firm Colt Expands Cloud Services in Europe

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 21 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...Verne Global selecting Colt's modular data center for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. Colt's cloud services were only previously offered in the UK. This expansion into Europe will help customers store and access data anytime, anywhere, while meeting the data protection requ... (Read Full Article)

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Can an IT Snowball Grow in Iceland?

Explore The New York Times (Oct 20 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

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Tomorrow's Data Centre Blog

Explore Verne Global/Colt (Oct 17 2011)

...s connectivity. To service the high-bandwidth, high capacity needs of a large data centre industry, Iceland needed to have redundant, multi-terabit connectivity to both Europe and North America. Verne worked with local industry, network operators and the government to facili... (Read Full Article)

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Can Iceland's Renewables Power the Web?

Explore Science News, Articles and Information (Oct 17 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Servers

...l for hosting facilities that need inexpensive, but reliable renewable energy, the IT pioneers say. Iceland has vast renewable resources and is conveniently nestled between North America and Europe. Plus, it has got a temperate climate and infrastructure connecting it to major population centers.... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...presentatives for Verne Global, which was getting ready to open the doors to its new data center in Iceland. There's something about those chilly northern locales that are becoming the hot spots for data cen......isa Rhodes, VP of marketing and sales for Verne Global, and Sean McAvan, Datapipe’s VP of Sales for Europe and the Middle East – and thought I’d share some excerpts of those interviews ... (Read Full Article)

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Colt manufactures and ships data centre to Iceland

Explore telecomkh (Oct 14 2011)

Verne Global opens for business enabled by Colt´s Modular Data Centre Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and o......operator, has selected Colt’s Modular Data Centre for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. This is the world's first mission critical data centre with zero-emissions to be manufactured and ... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe signs up for green data centre

Explore comms-express.com (Oct 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ompany Datapipe has revealed that it will be utilising equipment at the Verne Global data centre in Iceland, which will be powered by renewable energy. It is set to use the server racks and data cabinets ...... the facility to offer its customers cloud computing and infrastructure-as-a-service, reports eWeek Europe. The company revealed that it selected the Verne Global centre because it runs using green energ... (Read Full Article)

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Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate

Explore Ars Technica (Oct 6 2011) Construction , Data Center Outages , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

...d cable is put in place, the company says. Of course, cheap data centers are all well and good, and Iceland is roughly centrally located between North America and mainland Europe, but some applications require low levels of latency that can only be achieved by close proximity t... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe Partners with Verne Global to Deliver Green Cloud from Iceland

Explore MyHostNews (Oct 6 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...provide free cooling. ...and more » Datapipe Partners with Verne Global to Deliver Green Cloud from Iceland By MyHostNews.com October 6th, 2011 | Posted under Press Releases, Web Host News Tweet Web Host New......l-positioned to lower the carbon footprint of companies around-the-world. The site is connected to Europe and the United States with multiple high-speed cables. Based in the United Kingdom, Verne Global is... (Read Full Article)

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