Iceland Woos Data Centers As Power Costs Soar

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 29, 2008 @04:17PM 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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OT somewhat- A beautiful country by LM741N · 2008-03-29 17:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I have seen some Youtube videos of people on Iceland trips and it looks like a beautiful country. They can send me there any time as an electrical engineer or software architect. What language do they speak? Isn't Iceland Danish territory?