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Iceland's Verne Global on 'Sustainable Cloud' at Smart Grids & Cleanpower
Explore Cambridge ideas change the world (May 24 2012)
...roviders to ensure they reduce carbon footprints while cost-effectively transferring to the cloud.
Iceland's Verne Global on 'Sustainable Cloud' at Smart Grids & Cleanpower 21/05/2012 null 'The truly sustainable cloud – n...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global DuPont Fabros
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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds
Explore ITworld (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar
... cite what it deems are positive examples, including the new carbon-neutral data center facility in Iceland built by Verne Global. You can read up on that here. Take a look at the Greenpeace report. Let me know what you think. Is...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers
Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)
... on the center, Google has built a €200 million, or $265 million, data facility in Hamina, Finland; Verne Global is investing $700 million in its center in Iceland; and Green Mountain Data is building a facility worth 1 billion Norwegian kroner, or $175 million, ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Iceland
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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......nalists in Reykjavik earlier this month while saluting an early catch: British data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept ...
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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......nalists in Reykjavik earlier this month while saluting an early catch: British data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept ...
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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......mpletes a new subsea line as soon as this year. That’s why London-based data center hosting company Verne Global recently fired up operations in a converted NATO munitions storehouse outside Reykjavik. IBM has lo...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Environmental Monitoring: Europe Data Centers to Turn to Renewable Energy for Power by 2020
Explore Information Technology (Apr 19 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
... 2011 on short-term contracts, according to Landsvirkjun. Those data centers currently operating in Iceland include Verne Global’s modular data center built by Colt and Skyrr-owned Thor Data Center. Whether your data center is o... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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Iceland's National Power Company Offers Data Centers the Most Competitive Power Prices in Europe
Explore MarketWatch.com (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal
...nd free cooling possibilities since the climate is cool and temperate. Datacenter facility provider Verne Global began operating in Iceland in 2012, starting with a 5,400 square foot hall in partnership with UK based Colt Telecommunication...
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Iceland Bets on Green Data Centers
Explore Pike Research (Apr 13 2012)
...teresting to see a project you’ve been tracking for some time come to fruition. I’ve been following Verne Global, and its plans for a data center campus in Iceland, for almost two years, so it was rewarding to see its progress first-hand at the official launch ev...
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Hot Rocks, glaciers to make Iceland green tech hub?
Explore Future of Tech on msnbc.com (Apr 11 2012)
...bial cloud – currently consume upwards of 1.5 percent of total global electricity use, according to Verne Global, a server farm company that opened doors in Iceland this February. That figure is expected to continue to grow. By 2025, these data centers could be dr...
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Iceland Exports Energy as Data
Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing
... the world a new commodity: a cheap, guiltless way 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'...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Iceland Europe
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Video: Shipping A Data Center 1,000 Miles
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 5 2012) Construction
...lt data center modules onto a container ship, which sailed them from northern England to Reykjavik, Iceland for delivery to its customer, Verne Global. It was a process that required attention to detail and careful planning of the logistics. This vid...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Tate Cantrell
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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 in...... a convergence of attributes that tick all the boxes,” says Jeff Monroe, chief executive officer of Verne Global, Björgólfsson’s venture. “You have 100 percent renewable energy. We can do 100 percent free cooling...
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High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven
Explore Irish Independent (Mar 25 2012)
...mer owner of one of its largest 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
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Europe
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Iceland woos microsoft for part of $41 billion data market: tech- bloomberg news
Explore Bloomberg.com (Mar 21 2012)
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 informa......e island and capture a slice of a $41 billion market.
Helgi Helgason, senior facility manager at Verne Global, walks past security units housing computer equipment used for data storage at the company's center...
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Land of Vikings and modular data centers
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal
Verne Global built in Iceland where it is being hailed as a pioneer. Also revealed is a deepening relationship with Colt 20 March...
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Inside an Icelandic datacentre
Explore ZDNet UK (Mar 18 2012) Geothermal
...s on datacentres in metropolitan European cities could tempt businesses into locating their data in Iceland, Verne Global believes. Moving there would also allow them to use a fully 'green' datacentre and avoid the outcry...
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Maximising the use of our Network Resources
Explore blogs.techworld.com (Mar 8 2012)
The addition of Colt's Pan European Network to Verne Global's network offering at its data centre in Keflavik, Iceland has certainly increased the options for how our customers connect to their environmentally powered ...
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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...
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Colt Technology and Verne Global's dual renewably sourced data centre in Iceland
Explore GreenMonk (Feb 23 2012)
... when I received an invitation from Colt Technology to view the new data centre they had built with Verne Global in Iceland, I nearly bit their hand off!
The data centre is built on an 18-hectare (approximately 45-acre) com...
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North American/Iceland/European data center mindsets - Doug Mohney
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 22 2012)
...London from a North American perspective is the additional latency added when moving from London to Iceland, but that hasn't stopped initial customers for Verne Global's data center such as Datapipe and Greenqloud. Latency issues are also mitigated with Colt putting...
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Icelandic Steam, French Bidding Wars: Europe and Cloud Computing in Early 2012
Explore CloudTweaks.com (Feb 20 2012) Cloud Computing
...ta centers which are critical to safeguarding the data that keeps the cloud afloat. British company Verne Global are looking to address this issue in game-changing fashion as they investigate Iceland’s potential role in cloud computing this year. Sub-sea cables has just been laid throughout the cou... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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Iceland’s steam offers cleaner future for the cloud
Explore timesplus.co.uk (Feb 20 2012)
Iceland has turned to the internet and to its own extraordinary natural resources in its efforts to refocus...... refocus an economy still bearing the scars of the country’s banking collapse.
A new venture led by Verne Global, a British company set up by veterans of the American data centre industry, will create the world’s...
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Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business
Explore ITworld (Feb 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing
...orked for numerous publications covering nearly every type of business technology, including IT ... Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business Verne Global, which has been building a 100% carbon-neutral data center that uses renewable energy, opens its do...
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