Updated: Nordics emerge as top green datacentre location

Explore businessgreen.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...t, which found that Nordic countries are proving an increasingly popular location for server farms. Iceland takes fourth spot in new risk index ranking countries' attractiveness to datacentre developers Busi......ope," said Keith Inglis, partner in the European datacentre advisory group at Cushman & Wakefield. "Google has built a facility in Hamina, Finland, and Facebook is constructing a substantial new datacentre ... (Read Full Article)

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Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

...d hardened snow, a future hub of Facebook’s global data traffic is taking shape. Add to Portfolio * Google Inc Go to your Portfolio » Scaffolding still clings to its exterior, but soon, the structure will b......d Germany were ranked as the top European locations for data centers, they were closely followed by Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Norway, based on an evaluation of risk factors including energy costs, connect... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ve alternately held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy policies and......lutionary process, one that industry players have now firmly embarked on. Entire countries, such as Iceland, as well IT industry leaders, such as Intel, are cases in point. The green data center market It’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...ive your cloud computing operations. It says that compared to other big IT companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo, you use too much coal and nuclear, and not enough “renewable” power. “Three of the large......r publications including Time magazine, the North Atlantic island is a perfect place to “go green.” Iceland’s runs entirely on renewable electricity - 75 percent from hydro, and the rest from geothermal. The... (Read Full Article)

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High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven

Explore Irish Independent (Mar 25 2012)

...re is unexpectedly set to pitch the country's growing data centre business into competition against Iceland. Last December, US firm Emerald Networks said it had teamed up with Dublin-based PiPiper Infrastruc......energy-hungry data centres down. That has partly prompted tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google to site major data centre facilities here. Last month, Microsoft said it would spend close to €100m... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud computing = green it....right?!

Explore Billing and OSS World (Mar 21 2012)

...garners headlines. Some examples from the past year are Facebook's Open Compute Project Initiative, Google's Solar initiatives andIvanpah Solar Electric Generating System (“largest solar energy project in t......percent less energy than typical data centers. One especially interesting project is GreenQloud. In Iceland the data center is powered 100 percent by geothermal and hydropower energy, delivering hosting and ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland’s steam offers cleaner future for the cloud

Explore timesplus.co.uk (Feb 20 2012)

...mal and hydro-electric energy. It is hoped that it could be a trend-setter for the industry and for Iceland. The likes of Facebook, Google and Yahoo! have all investigated the country in the past but have been put off by the lack of conne... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

Explore ZDNet UK (Feb 10 2012)

...ergy beyond the three aluminum refineries currently operating in the country, Ossur Skarpheoinsson, Iceland's minister of foreign affairs, said on Thursday. "In the future, [datacentres] will be one of the m......y... I think he's referring specifically to Android apps, as Apple do regulate their App Store, but Google seem to let any old crap onto the Android store! Keep the crap apps out?! How will they compete ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...gy, Hardware, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Servers * Follow @ericsmalley * Iceland plays its geothermal ace in the high-stakes green data center market. Photo: Verne Global The amo......nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more ... (Read Full Article)

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Are Clouds Green?

Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 20 2011)

...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 zero carbon data centre in th...... former NATO air base which now houses the first zero carbon data centre in the world, and speak to Google about what they're doing to reduce the footprint ... (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)

Ireland and Iceland are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Euro...... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centers. Google Inc is building a data center in Dublin and Microsoft Corp already has one in the city. The centers... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

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

Ireland and Iceland are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Euro...... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would br... (Read Full Article)

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Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud (Part 2)

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...lans to start offering a cloud service directly – and compete with other large cloud providers like Google and Facebook – I cannot see that they have need of a large-scale third party hosting/colocation pro......thorsson November 7th, 2011 + + Tweet + + + Olafur Ingthorsson is an IT professional in Reykjavik, Iceland who writes about cloud computing at Cloud Computing Topics. This is the second article from my c... (Read Full Article)

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Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...thorsson October 31st, 2011 + + Tweet + + + Olafur Ingthorsson is an IT professional in Reykjavik, Iceland who writes about cloud computing at Cloud Computing Topics. I recently had an interesting discussio......t of services into the cloud, including CRM (Salesforce), email and office applications (Office365, Google Apps, etc). I believe this trend will continue. These services and some others that do not entail s... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

...d. Facebook's Swedish data center will have company from other tech giants in Scandinavia. In 2009, Google ( , Fortune 500) bought a defunct paper mill in Hamina, Finland, and converted it into a data cente......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook to build server farm: Q&A

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...heir cold climates and green power to attract server farms. Verne Global has built a data centre in Iceland. Google has already built a data centre in Finland. Switzerland is promoting itself as a centre for safe da... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

... giant data center outside the town center of Luleå,” in Sweden. It was around this time, too, that Google announced the opening of its data center in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Opera signs with data center in the US

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Sep 29 2011) Cloud Computing

... Jarholt said Opera is increasingly looking to green data center operations, much like search giant Google, as its operations grow. “Going green means going in the right direction,” Jarholt said. “Ope......st of the US, including in Washington and Seattle. Opera also signed up with Thor data center in Iceland last year, which boasts the use of 100% renewable energy. Opera signs with data center in the US Sa... (Read Full Article)

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Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Explore features.techworld.com (Sep 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

... cooling," says Rich Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power...... a low carbon footprint. For example, Verne Global is cranking up a "carbon-neutral data centre" in Iceland, currently scheduled to go live November 2011, powered entirely by a combination of hydroelectric s... (Read Full Article)

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Six energy-efficient data center practices How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways.

Explore ITworld (Aug 23 2011)

...low carbon footprint. For example, Verne Global is cranking up a "carbon-neutral data center" in Iceland -- currently scheduled to go live November 2011 -- powered entirely by a combination of hydro-elect......up, Forrester Research. [ See also: Facebook shares its data-center secrets ] Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with data center hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affo... (Read Full Article)

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Media Decoder: News Corp. Sells MySpace to Specific Media for $35 Million

Explore A Guide to the Media Industry (Jun 29 2011)

... waiting for a thank you note” from the Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone. Mr. Freston, who was in Iceland on Wednesday and was smiling at the news of an impending sale, declined to comment. At the News Cor......ent. At the News Corp. on Wednesday, relief over the sale was appreciable. An advertising deal with Google helped the company to recoup what it spent on MySpace in the first place, but ... (Read Full Article)

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Green challenges in the data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 7 2011) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

... this purpose, is restricted to particular areas of the world. While this has undoubtedly benefited Iceland’s emerging data center industry, and may eventually be replicated in parts of the US if Google-funded research into the potential for geothermal power does ultimately bear fruit, it is clearly n... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca......Taipei, Taiwan. Its mission is: "to enable cloud computing through software." Greenqloud - Based in Iceland, Greenqloud's founders call it "the world's first truly green public compute cloud." It uses only c... (Read Full Article)

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U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary

Explore BusinessWeek (Jun 2 2010) Networking

... or broadband, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. South Korea, Iceland and Germany are among the countries that ranked higher in 2009, the Paris-based group says. Connect......s Via Cell Phone * EU to Set Up Fund to Prevent Spread of Greek Crisis (Update4) * Advertisers Give Google TV a Warm Reception * U.S., Asia Stocks Tumble as Debt Concern Spurs Electronic Rout * Ten Manageme... (Read Full Article)

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