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Categories
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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
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About Verne Global
Verne Global is one of the few data centers in the world that is fully powered by 100% renewable energy sources. Based in Iceland, Verne Global uses the natural power resources, geothermal and hydro-electric, and the outside ambient temperatures to offer free cooling to its clients. Verne offers wholesale data center space architected using modular designs to large corporations worldwide. It is connected to Europe and the United States with multiple high-speed cables.
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Quotes about Verne Global
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“ What makes Verne Global unique is that it is able to offer its customers a cost effective, yet truly green solution to their data center needs by providing the benefits of Iceland's 100 percent free cooling, renewable energy resources and predictable forecasting of energy pricing. ”
Jeff Monroe in Data center services in Iceland continue to grow -
“ A core value in the Verne Global model is to achieve the lowest total cost of operations and Iceland's unique landscape makes this a real possibility with an abundance of inexpensive, 100-percent renewable energy supplied by the region's hydro-electric and geothermal electricity resources combined with an advanced smart grid technology. ”
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“ Verne Global has an existing shell and we have retro fitted the solution to fit into the space available. The flexibility in the product has allowed us to engineer a completely free air solution. ”
In Colt ships first modular data center to overseas customer
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Mentioned In 123 Articles
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Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres
Explore ZDNet UK (13 hours, 48 min ago)
... a 28,000-square foot facility that opened in mid-2010 that consumes around 3.5MW of power, and the Verne Global datacentre, which officially opened on Thursday and has leased a campus that gives it access to ove...
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Verne Global's Icelandic Data Centre: In Pictures
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (21 hours, 50 min ago) Construction , Geothermal
Verne Global’s Icelandic Data Centre: In Pictures Cooled by the outside air and powered by renewable energy, the... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Peter Judge
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New Centre Bids To Establish Iceland As Data Hub
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (21 hours, 56 min ago) Geothermal
Verne Global’s data centre in Keflavik, Iceland, has opened with a handful of initial customers and an upgraded ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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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...
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Colt to add POP to Verne Global data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)
Colt will establish a point of presence in Verne Global’s data center in Keflavik, Iceland to connect its pan-European access and backbone network with the... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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Verne Global officially opens Iceland data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)
Verne Global, which uses a Colt Modular Data Center inside its data center shell to house infrastructure, announ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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US to use climate to help cool exascale systems
Explore Computerworld (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling
... just off the North Sea coast in the U.K. One project that is carbon free is a data center built by Verne Global in Keflavik, Iceland. The power supply comes from a combination of hydro and geothermal sources. Th...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Hewlett Packard
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US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather
Explore news.techworld.com (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers
...r just off the North Sea coast in the UK. One project that is carbon free is a data centre built by Verne Global in Keflavik, Iceland. The power supply comes from a combination of hydro and geothermal sources. Th...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Department of Energy
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Up and Running
Explore blogs.techworld.com (Jan 18 2012)
... of our new modular datacentre.
At the jobsite, we embrace the blend of Icelandic and English as Verne Global's and Colt's installation and testing teams work in collaboration on the end goal of tying the burg...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Tate Cantrell
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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...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Tate Cantrell
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will excess data center heat be an asset? by Doug Mohney
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 10 2012)
...infrastructure (big pipes, water, distribution).
In the near term, cool climate data centers like Verne Global could end up teaming up with organic/localvore-style businesses to grow fresh produce without havin...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Doug Mohney
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Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)
...hile Thor is getting its business in gear, another Icelandic data centre is getting under way, with Verne Global going directly for a modular system from data centre and services company Colt.
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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green
Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)
...ericsmalley * Iceland plays its geothermal ace in the high-stakes green data center market. Photo: Verne Global The amount of data the world stores is on an explosive growth curve. According to research outfit...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Amazon.com Iceland
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PODCAST: Are Clouds Green? By the BBC One Planet
Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 23 2011)
Hear Tate Cantrell, Verne Global CTO and Joe Cava, Senior Director, Google Data centers talk about the cloud.
Our lives are incre...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Verne Global Tate Cantrell
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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)
Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has recently announced ...
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Comment Mentions: Iceland Europe Verne Global
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