Data centres find Iceland hospitable

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

...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...... Global, founded in 2006, claims it can save U.S. customers 30% in total colocation costs, and that United Kingdom customers can save 50% to 60%. Verne Global says it is ... (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,......t wasn't there even 12 months ago. In 2003, Iceland ran its first undersea fiber-optic cable to the United Kingdom. But one fiber optic cable doesn't make a good data center environment. They've ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Cooling your data center is a breeze by tate cantrell

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 12 2009) Power and Cooling

With today’s economy still trying to recover and new standards being set for green IT, it’s hard to justify spending millions of dollars and guzzling megawatts of electricity chilling data centers when you can cool it for free. According to predictions by The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, power costs for data centers could rise to as high as $7.4 billion a year by 2012 without efficiency ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Google   Verne Global