Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

Explore ZDNet UK (Feb 10 2012)

...ind in any other European country, according to the datacentre provider's chief technology officer, Tate Cantrell. In the next 10 years, Landsvirkjun hopes to supply one percent of Europe's datacentre power needs — around 160MW — to facilities in Iceland, its chief executive Hordur Arna... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Iceland   Europe

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

...rbon neutral” data center before the end of this year. “It’s all about the power,” Verne Global CTO Tate Cantrell says. “Iceland has great natural resources.” Based in a former NATO facility in Keflavik, the data ......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

In Iceland, Making Lemonade Out of Ash

Explore Light Reading (May 8 2010) Geothermal , Hydro , Cloud Computing

...ting in Iceland; and the presence of three major transoceanic cables, providing links to the US and Europe, made communications attractive as well. A lot of those advantages were highlighted in Internet Evo......s allowed us to show how we were prepared, and that the volcano did not affect our operation," says Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global. "Our facilities are built on an old NATO airbase in the southwest ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Update: Iceland, volcanoes, and data centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 16 2010)

...data center at a former NATO Command Centre in Keflavik, Iceland. Verne’s chief technology officer, Tate Cantrell, said Iceland’s volcanic activity was a strategic consideration in their site location. Iceland’s p......ase in point: Flights were taking off from the airfield at Keflavik, even as air traffic in much of Europe remains grounded. * Iceland, Volcanoes and Data Centers * Iceland, Volcanoes and Data Centers April... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Data centres find Iceland hospitable

Explore computerworlduk.com (Feb 15 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

...cause of the country's climate, natural resources and network connectivity to the United States and Europe. The Icelandic site offers access to geothermal and hydroelectric energy, free cooling every day......whereas typical prices in the United States are about  10 cents and can be 20 cents in London, says Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global. By taking advantage of outside air to cool servers in the Iceland data center... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Warming Up To Iceland

Explore Forbes.com (Jan 11 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

...ers are expected to move to even more extreme locations over the next decade. Forbes caught up with Tate Cantrell, chief technology officer at Verne Global--a data center developer based in Iceland and Washington,....... How long does it take to move data from there? The network is roughly midway between New York and Europe. There's 18-millisecond latency to London and 15-millisecond latency to Denmark. And it's 37 millis... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

A new energy currency- by tate cantrell

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 20 2009) Carbon Tax , Emissions

Comment "There is a definitive need to create extra funds, or to cut spending, and one of the ways people save ..." - JuliusJ

...s a result, Britain will be more vulnerable to energy supply shocks than any other major country in Europe. So what can companies do now to minimize the impact of either one of these scenarios? One option ... (Read Full Article)

1 Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Tate Cantrell

Benefits of Embracing Environmental Responsibility by Tate Cantrell

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 24 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment

The UK has been at the forefront of the push for reducing carbon emissions since becoming the first country to put their efforts into law at the end of 2007 with the Climate Change Bill. Introduced under this plan is the rapidly approaching and mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), slated to come into effect in April of 2010. The government estimates that the scheme will affect 25% of total business ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Tate Cantrell