Google's new data center in Finland

Post by herdrick » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 5:55 AM UTC

iuyhgtfvgbhjn wrote: post #37

herdrick wrote: post #22

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.

Poor 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

Post by Alleyfield » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 9:37 PM UTC

MikeCapone wrote: post #38

Alleyfield wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's even more interesting is that prior deciding to produce mobile phones - Nokia's biggest asset was producing rubber boots.

I think this was mentioned in a recent issue of The Economist. Just out of curiosity, is this were you found out about it?