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I've been wondering for a while why Google and others don't put data centers in Iceland. Electricity there is almost free of charge and has zero carbon footpri
by herdrick 16y ago
I've been wondering for a while why Google and others don't put data centers in Iceland. Electricity there is almost free of charge and has zero carbon footprint - in fact zero emissions of any sort. (It's geothermal.) The location is remote so you would have some extra latency but for lots of stuff that'd be fine.
- jodrellblank 16y agoI wont find it on my iPhone, but there was a recent article about companies doing just that, datacenters being built and fast links run to the UK and mainland Europe. It's quite remote from a get-servers-and-techs there perspective too, though. Might not get a 4 hour onsite warranty as easily.
- avar 16y agoIceland has horrible network connectivity compared to the mainland, and I don't think Google needs to do that much batch-only processing for it to pay off. This is also pertinent: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/datacenter/how-to-kill-the-datacenter-business/438 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/datacenter/how-to-kill-the-datacen...
- iuyhgtfvgbhjn 16y agoPoor international connectivity. Small country, where do you hire a lawyer with expertise in Icelandic IP law? How much jurisprudence is there? Do you trust the government given that they just basically walked away from their bank guarantees