Iceland looks to serve the world.
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Iceland looks to serve the world.
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Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#2Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes?
The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#3Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes? The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
They also have a lot of earthquakes.
But then, Japan has lots of earthquakes and quite a bit of storms and rain and people still live there. There are also regular devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean and the south-east USA and people also still live there!
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#4Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes? The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
True, but you've gotta figure that "our datacenter was swallowed by a volcanic eruption" is at least a cooler excuse than "DFW is having weird power issues". If you must go dark, go dark in style! (And keep a good eye some off-site backups).
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#5Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes? The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
I can't recall ever hearing about a volcano on Iceland threatening people, though.
The earthquakes are probably a bigger problem, since they affect a larger area don't all occur in specific locations. Design the building properly and even that shouldn't be a big problem.
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#6Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes? The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
I can't recall ever hearing about a volcano on Iceland threatening people, though. The earthquakes are probably a bigger problem, since they affect a larger area don't all occur in specific locations. Design the building properly and even that shouldn't be a big problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldfell
5,300 had to be evacuated from the island of Heimaey due to an eruption in 1973.
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#7I like the idea that the internet will be plugged in and powered by the earths own internal heat. It's like the virtual world and natural world becoming as one.
Re: Iceland looks to serve the world.
#8A company would save greater than half a million metric tons of carbon annually by putting their data center in Iceland.
A typical server uses 1 ton / year. Not many companies have more than half a million servers. Perhaps only about 2 companies.
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#10A couple of problems:
Iceland is small so although it has an image as a cool sensible safe Scandinavian country it wouldn't take many voters to put in a far right/far left president who might screw up your business model.
Do you know the details of Icelandic law? Does your corporate lawyers? Your regulation compliance officers? How many Icelandic Intelectual Property specialists can you hire tomorrow? There is a reason that banks have HQs in London/New York - they have a few hundred years of case law that they understand.
Iceland is bankrupt, which means it is under thumb of the IMF which means it will do whatever Washington says. Do you want your data to be ruled officially by Reykjavik but unofficially by MPIA/RIAA/Whoever says.