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 lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, conne... (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 lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, conne... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...mpletes a new subsea line as soon as this year. That’s why 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)

...rs, so it was rewarding to see its progress first-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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

... the world a new commodity: a cheap, guiltless way 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... (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...... 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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High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven

Explore Irish Independent (Mar 25 2012)

...mer owner of one of its largest 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)

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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......e island and capture a slice of a $41 billion market. Helgi Helgason, senior facility manager at Verne Global, walks past security units housing computer equipment used for data storage at the company's center... (Read Full Article)

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Land of Vikings and modular data centers

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

...the entrance you will be met by a manned security gate. This is Asbru in Reykjanesbaer, 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... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 2 2012)

Verne Global officially opened its Iceland data center in February. The company's CTO Tate Cantrell answers our ......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)

... when I received an invitation from Colt Technology to view the new data centre they had built with Verne Global in Iceland, I nearly bit their hand off! The data centre is built on an 18-hectare (approximately 4......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

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

...online technology trade publication TechWeek Europe about 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)

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Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

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

...online technology trade publication TechWeek Europe about 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)

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New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 10 2012) Geothermal

Verne Global’s data centre in Keflavik, Iceland, has opened with a handful of initial customers and an upgraded ...... 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... (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

...oday marked a coming-out party for the leading player in the nascent Iceland data center market, as Verne Global unveiled its new “modular colo” data center in Keflavik, along with three new tenants. Today’s even...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Take two aspirin for that headache

Explore blogs.techworld.com (Jan 18 2012)

...ou will set yourself up for operational success. For our first datacentre deployment in Iceland, Verne Global has employed a regimen of more than just painkillers for reducing headaches at our site on the form......s employed a regimen of more than just painkillers for reducing headaches at our site on the former NATO air base in Keflavik. We've gone modular. And thanks to that decision, in a matter ... (Read Full Article)

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Video: Verne, Colt Bring Modular Data Centres to Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 24 2011) Construction , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Servers

Verne Global’s new data center in Iceland will deploy customer servers in a factory-built modular server hall de......ar server hall designed and built by Colt in its UK factory and shipped to Verne’s site in a former NATO command center. In this video, executives from Verne discuss their location and why they chose... *... (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)

...so it was with much excitement and great pride, that in early October we announced our plans to use Verne Global’s Icelandic facility to deliver carbon neutral managed IT solutions, including a green cloud and bu......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 ... (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

...ditioning bills -- another major energy expenditure 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)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...er in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that I got a call from representatives for Verne Global, which was getting ready to open the doors to its new data center in Iceland. There's something abo......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 ... (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

... 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 in a factory-built modular design housed w......ter in Iceland, deploying customer servers in a factory-built modular design housed within a former NATO command center. Remembering Steve Jobs – The technology world is remembering Apple founder Steve J... (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 will be powered by renewable energy. It is set to use the server r......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 ... (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

...pening a “100% carbon 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 center is capable of supporting as much as 200,000 to 250,000 square... (Read Full Article)

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