Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

Explore Renewable Energy World (Apr 23 2012) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

Fishing has long been a vital industry in Iceland. It's so imprinted on the national psyche that it's hard to find anyone untouched by it among the t......ritish data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, conne... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

Fishing has long been a vital industry in Iceland. It’s so imprinted on the national psyche that it’s hard to find anyone untouched by it among the t......ritish data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, conne... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...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......y London-based data center hosting company Verne Global recently fired up operations in a converted NATO munitions storehouse outside Reykjavik. IBM has long been rumored as a prospective tenant there. St... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Bets on Green Data Centers

Explore Pike Research (Apr 13 2012)

...rst-hand at the official launch event last month. The Verne Global data center is based on a former NATO facility west of Reykjavik, near Keflavik International Airport. Iceland’s advantages as a staging post between North America and Europe are important, but it’s the availab... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

... to store its data. In February, a startup called Verne Global opened a large server farm on an old NATO base near Iceland's main airport and began offering "100% renewable" computing services to the rest of the world. It'... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

Explore BusinessWeek (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

On the southwestern tip of Iceland, housed in a former NATO air base, a new $700 million data center is waiting to host the world’s information. Tapping into a... (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)

...rgest failed banks, Landsbanki, opened a $700m (€527m) data centre called Verne Global on a disused NATO airbase in Iceland last month. The Wellcome Trust, a (Read Full Article)

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Iceland woos microsoft for part of $41 billion data market: tech- bloomberg news

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On the southwestern tip of Iceland, housed in a former NATO air command base, a new data center is waiting to host the world’s information. Tapping into a read... (Read Full Article)

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Land of Vikings and modular data centers

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

...milliseconds.” FUTURE GROWTH It takes many parts to make a successful data center. Picking a former NATO base in Iceland was the first step. Securing the power to the site was next. Deploying a modular data center inside... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Proves Ideal for Carbon Neutral Data Centre - Video from Reuters

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...a suitable climate for cooling, a carbon neutral data center is providing data services from an old NATO base in Iceland. The facility was officially opened in February but could be the first of many such centers to take... (Read Full Article)

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The Evolution of the Green Data Center

Explore Triple Pundit (Mar 14 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e to know they are there. So data centers are being disguised and hidden: in underground former NATO ammo depots, as large chicken coops in upstate New York, as mega-mansions with three underground ......tances. An often cited example for abundant low-cost geothermal and hydroelectric resources is Iceland but the remote location makes data movement challenging. * Server utilization – Average server util... (Read Full Article)

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Engineer Q&A: Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 2 2012)

Verne Global officially opened its Iceland data center in February. The company's CTO Tate Cantrell answers our questions about the project an......the delivery of the modular data centre product.  We improved upon the structural specifications of NATO, reinforcing the hardened structure that adds an extra layer of protection around our modular data ... (Read Full Article)

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Colt Technology and Verne Global's dual renewably sourced data centre in Iceland

Explore GreenMonk (Feb 23 2012)

Iceland’s a funny place. Despite the name, it never actually gets very cold there. The average low temperat......ne: The facility is situated on the site of the former Naval Air Station Keflavik, a key strategic NATO base for over 50 years and chosen for its extremely low risk of natural disaster. Located well to t... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

Explore Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Feb 13 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...out the Thursday opening of 5,300-square-foot Verne Global data center. The facility is in a former NATO air base at Keflavik, Iceland. The new center joins the 28,000-square-foot Thor facility that opened at Hafnarfjordur, just south... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

Explore Outcome Magazine (Feb 13 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...out the Thursday opening of 5,300-square-foot Verne Global data center. The facility is in a former NATO air base at Keflavik, Iceland. The new center joins the 28,000-square-foot Thor facility that opened at Hafnarfjordur, just south... (Read Full Article)

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New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 10 2012) Geothermal

Verne Global’s data centre in Keflavik, Iceland, has opened with a handful of initial customers and an upgraded level of network support from partn...... square metres of data centre space (pictured), built inside a warehouse owned by Verne on a former NATO airbase, using the modular design Colt launched in 2010. Verne owns some 36,000 square metres of wa... (Read Full Article)

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New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

... a completed data center. Modular Design Meets Renewable Energy The new facility, built in a former NATO command center, takes advantage of Iceland’s vast supply of renewable energy (hydroelectric and geothermal), along with a cool climate that ... (Read Full Article)

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Take two aspirin for that headache

Explore blogs.techworld.com (Jan 18 2012)

...better, you will set yourself up for operational success. For our first datacentre deployment in Iceland, Verne Global has employed a regimen of more than just painkillers for reducing headaches at our si......s employed a regimen of more than just painkillers for reducing headaches at our site on the former NATO air base in Keflavik. We've gone modular. And thanks to that decision, in a matter of six ... (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 the world, and speak to Google about... (Read Full Article)

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Video: Verne, Colt Bring Modular Data Centres to Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 24 2011) Construction , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Servers

Verne Global’s new data center in Iceland will deploy customer servers in a factory-built modular server hall designed and built by Colt in i......ar server hall designed and built by Colt in its UK factory and shipped to Verne’s site in a former NATO command center. In this video, executives from Verne discuss their location and why they chose... *... (Read Full Article)

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Cool, Green, Data In Iceland - By Sean McAvan, Vice President EMEA Sales, Datapipe

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 16 2011)

... Data centers consume huge amounts of power; the resulting cost in carbon emissions impact us all. Iceland, with its low ambient temperatures and renewable energy sources, is ideally placed to help minimize......York – two very important and rapidly growing Datapipe business units. -->·       -->As a former NATO HQ, the site is as secure as it can be from natural disasters. NATO chose the location very carefully – it is outside the tectonic ... (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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Can Iceland's Renewables Power the Web?

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

Iceland is working to tip the scales toward renewable energy in a world where most computing needs are powe......ure the biggest data center operators usually face. Verne Global's data center, located in a former NATO command center in Keflavik, about 29 miles southwest of Reykjavik, will come into service this quar... (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......y other data center in an area with known risks – for example, Silicon Valley. The site is a former NATO HQ and NATO chose the location very carefully, it is outside the tectonic fracture ... (Read Full Article)

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