What does Iceland have? Cold weather and more green power than it can use.
What do servers need? Cooling and power.
Put the two together and you have a natural synergy. Site your data centre in Iceland and you can simultaneously cut cost while reducing your company’s carbon footprint. The only problem is how to connect to your servers, and Iceland has been busy laying fibre optic cables to connect to America and Europe.
Brilliant!
So Iceland has reinvented itself. Gone are the days of failed banks; welcome to Iceland as the natural home of your data.
Richard is the founder and Managing Director of FITM, which he established after identifying the need that small and medium sized companies have for flexible IT management skills. Prior to founding FITM, Richard was IT Director at Jupiter Asset Management and Director of Global IT at Dryden Wealth Management. He has held a variety of project management, development and other technical positions and more recently, he was IT Manager at FIM, an alternative investment manager. Richard is married with three children and a cat (all female) and lives in Hertfordshire.
Richard has written 55 posts for FITM.
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So why isn’t Iceland already overrun with data centres? Let’s not forget the source of all that geothermal energy: Iceland sits atop an active volcanic rift. Cheap power, great connectivity and volcanic eruptions