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Iceland: Data centre hot spot?
- eleitl 17y agoPutting your server farm on a volcanically active island just connected with 3-4 optical cables has its tradeoffs, too.
- patio11 17y agoIf you can't deal with a little thing like a volcano, the server farm is the least of your worries. Signed, Japan
- gwern 17y agoIn the last 1100 years, only 18 have erupted. And the terrain of Iceland means the direct threat is minimal: keep your datacenter away from the plate boundary parts of Iceland, and then you only have to worry about toxic clouds every few hundred years. If a company is really saving hundreds of millions over a few years or decades, they can afford to have the datacenter run remotely or sealed off from the outside atmosphere.
- fridrik 17y agoThere's little risk of volcanic catastrophes in Reykjavík according to geologists.
- arihelgason 17y agoEnergy costs may be predictable, but bandwidth costs are potentially volatile due to lack of competition.
- jokull 17y agoWe just need more optical cabling