Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

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

...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......to its private network for companies in 21 countries. Other Verne clients include Jersey City-based Datapipe, an IT services firm that supports financial and technology industries in New York and London; CCP ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

...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......to its private network for companies in 21 countries. Other Verne clients include Jersey City-based Datapipe, an IT services firm that supports financial and technology industries in New York and London; CCP ... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...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......or mill as interested in Iceland. Jeff, one of Amazon’s cloud computing parnters, Jersey City-based Datapipe, recently set up shop there. How about you? And while you’re there, enjoy the place. The fiery isla... (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......ast one-quarter of a data center’s operating costs are spent on cooling.) So far, customers include Datapipe, a Jersey City (N.J.)-based provider of disaster-recovery services, and CCP Games, the Icelandic co... (Read Full Article)

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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 information. Tapping into a read......he French Riviera. Photographer: Arnaldur Halldorsson/Bloomberg So far, Verne’s customers include Datapipe Inc., a Jersey City, New Jersey-based provider of disaster-recovery services, and CCP Games, the Ic... (Read Full Article)

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Land of Vikings and modular data centers

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

..., the site of Verne Global, one of the two main data center players in Iceland. The site is an ex-NATO facility consisting of several buildings – it has the potential to be scaled to 400,000 sq ft of da...... the Verne data center, though it could happen in the long term. A previously announced customer is Datapipe, a colocation and mission-critical cloud services provider. Currently, within a 500 sq ... (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 ......o address customer demand in a rapid timeframe.” Last fall Verne announced managed hosting provider Datapipe as the first tenant for its facility. Today Verne announced three new customers: + Game develop... (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)

...chnology markets. Iceland sits between London and New 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 fracture zones and is distant from a... (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

...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......egawatts of server power capacity will be filled with server modules as needed. One client, IT firm Datapipe, has already signed on. The second Iceland facility, Thor Data Center, opened last year in Hafnarfj... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...olocation service, which it announced last week. Also as part of the announcement was the news that Datapipe, a provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, pla......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 zones and is ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Oct. 8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 8 2011) Cloud Computing

...facilities on its Las Vegas campus that will add 600,000 square feet of data center space in 2012. 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 i......ter in Iceland, deploying customer servers in a factory-built modular design housed within a former NATO command center. Remembering Steve Jobs – The ... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe signs up for green data centre

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

Managed services company Datapipe has revealed that it will be utilising equipment at the Verne Global data centre in Iceland, which ......cutive officer of the latter company, asserted that modules are already being shipped to the former NATO airbase in Kevlavik. Some 100 jobs are set to be created at the data centre, the majority of whi... (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

...wer,” Verne Global CTO Tate Cantrell says. “Iceland has great natural resources.” Based in a former NATO facility in Keflavik, the data center is capable of supporting as much as 200,000 to 250,000 square......f our financial services clients will tolerate,” says Sean McAvan, vice president of EMEA sales for Datapipe, an IT hosting company which is the first publicly announced customer of Verne Global’s Iceland dat... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 6 2011) Construction , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

Datapipe signs up, as the modules start to ship to build Verne Global’s green data centre Verne Global has ......en 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 shippin... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland cometh

Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 5 2011)

...es run by Reston, Va- based data hosting company Verne Global, which has been gussying up a disused NATO naval base on a windswept peninsula near Reykjavik into an energy efficient data hub. Datapipe will use the center in Keflavik to serve information technology clients in New York, London and oth... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

Datapipe Goes Modular With Verne in Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 5 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...ter 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... (Read Full Article)

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