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      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. About Nato

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Organisation (NATO); Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique de Nord (OTAN); (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

  6. Quotes about Nato

    1. “ In Iceland, as anywhere in the world, there are all kinds of natural disasters to deal with. As it turns out, NATO is pretty good at picking strategic locations. ”
      Jeff Monroe in Data center weathers Iceland volcano

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    2. Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

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

      Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy ...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... (Read Full Article)

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    3. Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

      Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

      Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy ...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... (Read Full Article)

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    4. Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

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      Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland ...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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    5. Iceland Bets on Green Data Centers

      Explore Pike Research (Apr 13 2012)

      Iceland Bets on Green Data Centers ...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 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

    6. Iceland Exports Energy as Data

      Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

      Iceland Exports Energy as Data ... 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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    7. Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

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      Iceland, Data-Center Hub? 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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

    8. High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven

      Explore Irish Independent (Mar 25 2012)

      High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven ...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)

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    9. Fjord-Cooled Data Center Gets Anchor Tenant

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 23 2012) Construction , Emissions , Servers

      Fjord-Cooled Data Center Gets Anchor Tenant ...t of the mountain. Racks of servers will now fill underground halls that once stored ammunition for NATO. The backers of the site say negotiations with the anchor tenant took several months because they ... (Read Full Article)

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

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      Iceland woos microsoft for part of $41 billion data market: tech- bloomberg news 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... (Read Full Article)

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    11. Land of Vikings and modular data centers

      Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

      Land of Vikings and modular data centers ..., 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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    12. Iceland Proves Ideal for Carbon Neutral Data Centre - Video from Reuters

      Explore uk.reuters.com (Mar 20 2012)

      Iceland Proves Ideal for Carbon Neutral Data Centre - Video from Reuters ...a suitable climate for cooling, a carbon neutral data center is providing data services from an old NATO base in Iceland. The facility was officially opened in February but could be the first of many such... (Read Full Article)

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      The Evolution of the Green Data Center ...e to know they are there. So data centers are being disguised and hidden: in underground former NATO ammo depots, as large chicken coops in upstate New York, as mega-mansions with three underground ... (Read Full Article)

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

      Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 2 2012)

      Engineer Q&A: Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global ...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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    15. Colt Technology and Verne Global's dual renewably sourced data centre in Iceland

      Explore GreenMonk (Feb 23 2012)

      Colt Technology and Verne Global's dual renewably sourced data centre in Iceland ...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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

    16. Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

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

      Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers ...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)

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