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Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers

Posted by samzenpus on from the troll-protected dept.

judgecorp writes "Nordic nations are all pitching for business from data centre owners, based on their countries' excellent network provision, plentiful electricity from renewable sources, and a climate where servers can be kept cool cheaply, using the ambient air temperature, with no need for chillers. A Swedish delegation is visiting California to lure other players to follow Facebook into Sweden. Meanwhile, Iceland now has a new multi-tenant data centre to join the existing Thor site, and Denmark has a container-park data centre for its financial industry."

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  1. Innovative by alphatel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a great way to avoid snooping by pesky authorities. Until 5 years from now when Sweden receives the largest request for unfettered access to its systems by all those liberal, invasive governments.

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  2. Re:Iceland??? by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Icelands economy has recovered nicely. So well in fact that it is making Ireland, Portugal, and Greece jealous.

    Quote from last link:

    ICELAND pursued better policies than Ireland or Latvia when the three countries' economies collapsed in 2007 because the Reykjavik government allowed banks to fail, according to a new report by the influential Bruegel think tank." ... "The experience with the collapse of the gigantic Icelandic banking system suggests that letting banks fail when they had a faulty business model can be the right choice," the report notes.

  3. Finland, three new nuke plants coming by Suomi-Poika · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too bad we were forgotten from TFA, in 2009 Google placed their server farm to an old paper mill in Hamina. Now the 5th nuclear power plant (1800MW, what we buy from abroads now) is "soon" completed (before 2015 I hope) and two more are coming.

    We have cheap co2 free electricity and cold weather. I believe Finland is going to get a lot of data centers because in addition of chilly weather and good infrastructure here companies can buy a portion of nuclear power producer and get tax free electricity from their "own" nuclear power station. Other Nordic countries do not have such arrangements, there you pay the market price of electricity even if you own a power producer.