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......wept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, connected via subsea fiber lines to Europe and the U.S. Verne is just the sort of foreign presence that Iceland hopes will alleviate an unempl... (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......wept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, connected via subsea fiber lines to Europe and the U.S. Verne is just the sort of foreign presence that Iceland hopes will alleviate an unempl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...rd of in a world of volatile fossil fuel energy prices. It has good high-speed fiber connections to Europe and North America, which are set to get even better when League City, Texas-based Emerald Atlantis ......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 ......ar Keflavik International Airport. Iceland’s advantages as a staging post between North America and Europe are important, but it’s the availability of a dual-sourced renewable energy supply that makes the p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

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......rs. Every decade or so, someone runs the numbers to see what it would cost to plug the country into Europe's electricity grid. Depending on where it made land, the cable would have ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Iceland   Europe

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......s Iceland, population 319,575, is seeking to reinvent itself as a secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from a near total economic collapse and the 2008 failure of its t... (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)

...ic locations. Iceland has sought to reinvent itself as a safe and secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from the economic meltdown after the failure of the country's top ......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

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...... The Atlantic island has sought to reinvent itself as a safe and secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from the economic meltdown after the failure of the country’s top ... (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......ers and distributors pushing branded and unbranded services into the telecoms and IT markets across Europe. Unbranded is typically wholesale and involves connecting the last mile for major telecoms carriers... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 2 2012)

...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)

...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......reezes and the Gulf Stream push volcanic effects away from the Verne Global site and toward Western Europe. Read more: http://greenmonk.net/colt-telecom-and-verne-globals-dual-renewably-sourced-data-centre... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

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

...ndustrial history of Iceland," Skarpheoinsson told the online technology trade publication TechWeek Europe about the Thursday opening of 5,300-square-foot Verne Global data center. The facility is in a form......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 opene... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

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

...ndustrial history of Iceland,” Skarpheoinsson told the online technology trade publication TechWeek Europe about the Thursday opening of 5,300-square-foot Verne Global data center. The facility is in a form......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 opene... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 10 2012) Geothermal

... 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......f management to reduce the number of hops.” Iceland is increasing its bandwidth to both the USA and Europe, with two new fibre cables planned for the near future. GreenQloud, a low-carbon infrastructure as ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

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 ......ect Colt’s backbone with the Verne’s data center site, providing a gateway connection from mainland Europe into Iceland. The launch of the Verne Global facility opens a new chapter for the company and its h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Cisco

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......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Norway’s Fjord-Cooled Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...t of the mountain. Racks of servers will now fill underground halls that once stored ammunition for NATO. The project is being developed by the investment arm of the Norwegian shipping firm Smedvig, wh......wegian clients, but believe the facility may be attractive to multi-nationals based in the U.S. and Europe. “We are now mainly focusing on corporate customers with worldwide facilities who wish to reduce th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Norway   Nato

Can an IT Snowball Grow in Iceland?

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

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Can Iceland's Renewables Power the Web?

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

...ers 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.......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)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...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 with you. Is it true ......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe signs up for green data centre

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

... 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......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......ith more than 100 megawatts of power and 8-terabit-per-second connectivity to the United States and Europe, Cantrell says. It certainly won’t be the world’s biggest data center, but Verne Global claims to ... (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

...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......ady “The modules are now in the shipping process,” said Verne’s CEO Jeff Monroe, speaking to eWEEK Europe at the NetEvents press summit in Frascati, Italy. The data centre, apparently the first external or... (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. Iceland c......to move into the Verne center and use it to transmit data via subsea fiber that connects Iceland to Europe and the U.S. But, apparently deterred by unfavorable valued-added tax requirements (since rescinded... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe