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The cold cloud to the north
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11-10-2009 3:30pm#1http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stmJust outside Reykjavik, work is well advanced on the first site which its owners hope will spark a server cold rush.
In around a year - if all goes according to plan - the first companies will start leasing space in this data centre.
And if this proves successful more sites are planned.
The company expects demand to be huge because as the number of servers around the world grows, a big environmental cloud is looming - all that energy use means an increase in CO2 production.
Iceland has far more power than it can domestically use.
"The data centre industry now is on par with the airline industry as far as the carbon footprint," says Jeff Monroe, head of Verne Global - a data centre company working in Iceland.
If Ryan wants to do something vaguely longterm useful and 'green' he should get a fibre through the empty ducts as far as Bellinaboy and then strike out across the Rockall Trough ...over the Rockall Plateau and then across the Maury Seachannel to Iceland .
So far he has only announced a bicycle path around Broadhaven Bay . Smart and Green my hole
Incidentally Iceland has a fibre to every neighbour, bar IRELAND , the latest being the DANICE and FARICE projects.
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