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Iceland Woos Data Centers As Power Costs Soar

Posted by kdawson on from the where-cool-meets-hot dept.

call-me-kenneth writes "Business Week covers the soaring demand for power and cooling capacity in data centers. Electricity consumption for US data centers more than doubled between 2000 and 2006. Among the other stats: for every dollar spent on computing equipment in data centers, an additional half dollar is spent each year to power and cool them; and half the electricity used goes for cooling. Iceland, with its cool climate and abundant cheap power, is courting big users like Google and Microsoft as a future data center location. (Can't help thinking they're gonna need a bigger cable first, though.)"

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  1. If it's not Bjork don't fix it..... by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good for Iceland. I hope they get some big fish.

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  2. Re:What of Greenland? by kiehlster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I haven't heard that before, but it would make some sense. The big issue I see is that Iceland really isn't icy. It even has active volcanoes and geothermal hotspots. Not really what you think of when you put in a data center. If the Vikings really did change the name, then they'll have succeeded in fooling corporations generations later by it. Cue Vikings laughing at Google as its data centers melt under hot lava.

  3. Coincidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    they're gonna need a bigger cable

    Strange coincidence: I actually got some emails about just this subject.

  4. Re:What of Greenland? by zmollusc · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... so does 'Eng' mean 'free of meddlesome bureaucracy'?

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  5. Re:What of Greenland? by wellingj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cue Techno Viking to bring the lava...

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