Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

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

...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 ......rve the international community from our 100 percent renewably powered data center,” says Verne CEO Jeff Monroe. “What we have done as a first mover here in Iceland is we have secured a long-term power contract ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

...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 ......rve the international community from our 100 percent renewably powered data center,” says Verne CEO Jeff Monroe. “What we have done as a first mover here in Iceland is we have secured a long-term power contract ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

Explore BusinessWeek (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

... a rare spot on the earth where there is 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... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland woos microsoft for part of $41 billion data market: tech- bloomberg news

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... a rare spot on the earth where there is a convergence of attributes that tick all the boxes,” said Jeff Monroe, chief executive officer of Verne Global. Photographer: Arnaldur Halldorsson/Bloomberg   Enlarge image At full capacity, the campus can a... (Read Full Article)

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Land of Vikings and modular data centers

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

... that operates 19 data centers and 35,000km of fiber network. Having bought and developed the site, Jeff Monroe, CEO at Verne Global, says he was grateful to the customers who agreed to be named, and that once the opening tour was c... (Read Full Article)

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Q&A: Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

... persevered and have begun installing tenants. What were the keys to getting the project completed? Jeff Monroe: When Verne Global began the process of building its campus, we knew that there was a tremendous amount of work to be ... (Read Full Article)

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Verne Global Officially Opens Green Data Center in Iceland

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Feb 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...hich took place Wednesday, acting Minister of Industry Oddný Harðardóttir, Mayor Árni Sigfússon and Verne Global chair Jeff Monroe cut the ribbon. Verne Global’s data center is built with steel instead of concrete, making it 100 percent recyclable at its end ... (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

...ign process while leveraging Colt’s factory controlled fabrication process to ensure quality,” said Jeff Monroe, CEO at Verne Global. “This approach also provides Verne Global with the opportunity to quickly scale capacity to address customer demand in a rapid timeframe.” La... (Read Full Article)

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Colt to add POP to Verne Global data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)

...ches across Europe, Colt is the natural choice of partner for our Iceland data centre campus,” said Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global. The deal extends Colt’s engagement with Verne who is a customer for its Modular data center soluti... (Read Full Article)

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Colt Group Sa : Colt to expand Pan-European network reach into Iceland

Explore Stock Market Quotes and Financial News (Feb 9 2012) Construction , Geothermal , Networking

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Colt and Verne Global Introduce World’s First Dual Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre in Iceland inShare

Explore Telecom Review (Dec 10 2011)

...with the growing concern of rising cost and environmental impact of traditional data centers," said Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global. "We have designed a flexible, dynamic solution that answers the need for both high capacity comput... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...Helsinki is the first server farm to use seawater, brought in from the Bay of Finland, for cooling. Verne Global, Keflavik, Iceland Jeff Monroe, who started out working on AOL’s server farms, this year opened his new server farm based in a dis... (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

...eet at a cross section over Iceland that we really don't believe to exist anywhere else," explained Jeff Monroe, CEO of three-year-old data center company Verne Global. At least, that is what Iceland's IT pros are counting on. They see their nation becoming a player ... (Read Full Article)

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Colt manufactures and ships data centre to Iceland

Explore telecomkh (Oct 14 2011)

...rting our mission of delivering the world’s first dual-sourced renewably powered data centre,” said Jeff Monroe, CEO at Verne Global. “We see a strong demand in the colocation market and we required a partner who could provide highl... (Read Full Article)

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Silicon Geyser: put your datacentres here

Explore ZDNet UK (Oct 14 2011)

...yser might be more appropriate. I spent some time at NetEvents in Frascati last week speaking to Verne Global, which has the Wellcome Trust as its majority investor and which has built a datacentre on that isl...... from Icelandic companies that generate using geothermal and hydro-electric means. According to CEO Jeff Monroe, customers -- the first of whom is DataPipe -- save money because there's no premium for being gree... (Read Full Article)

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UK firm opens carbon neutral datacentre in Iceland

Explore Insight for IT leaders (Oct 10 2011) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ise two datacentres at the same price, the enterprise would always pick the eco-friendly one," said Jeff Monroe, chief executive of Verne Global. The centre will use Iceland's dual-sourced renewable energy (hydroelectric and geothermal) power ... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe signs up for green data centre

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

...ng and infrastructure-as-a-service, reports eWeek Europe. The company revealed that it selected the Verne Global centre because it runs using green energy and has two sources of power at a low price. Jeff Monroe, chief executive officer of the latter company, asserted that modules are already being shipped to ... (Read Full Article)

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Datapipe Partners with Verne Global to Deliver Green Cloud from Iceland

Explore MyHostNews (Oct 6 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...e solutions to power data centres. Datapipe’s leadership in this area is one to be applauded,” said Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global. “The source, availability and cost of power remain one of the primary concerns for data centre o...... team with proven success in the data centre industry. For more information, please visit us at www.verneglobal.com. Research, evaluate and learn more about website hosting at FindMyHost ... (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

... Verne gets its warehouse ready “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, appare...... 5, 2011 by Peter Judge verneshedtop Tweet Datapipe signs up, as the modules start to ship to build Verne Global’s green data centre Verne Global has announced a customer for, and released more details ... (Read Full Article)

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Tata Communications’ Radical Reassessment of “the Cloud Behind the Cloud” Launches NetEvents 2011 EMEA Summit

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... cycle is heading for the trough of disillusionment as we are now starting to see things go wrong.” Jeff Monroe, President, Verne Global added: “The problems with datacentres today is the people are putting them in the wrong places, ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Datapipe Signs as Tenant at Verne Globals Iceland Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

... its Icelandic data center Related Topics: green hosting, cloud computing, datapipe, data centers, verne global, iceland (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center developer Verne Global (www.verneglobal.com) announced on Wednesday that it web hosting provider Datapipe (www.datapipe.com) will deliver......inable solutions to power data centres. Datapipe's leadership in this area is one to be applauded," Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global said in a statement. "The ... (Read Full Article)

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Verne Global Opens Dual-Sourced 100 Percent Renewably Powered Data Center in ...

Explore Green Technology (Oct 5 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...with the growing concern of rising cost and environmental impact of traditional data centers,” said Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global, in a statement. “We have designed a flexible, dynamic solution that answers the need for both high... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland cometh

Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 5 2011)

...ipe announced today that it will move into facilities 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 ......ower remain one of the primary concerns for data centre operators around the globe,” said Verne CEO Jeff Monroe. Geothermal forces on display at the Strokkur Geyser. Geothermal forces on display at the Strokkur ... (Read Full Article)

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