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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!
Isn't the San Francisco area prone to earthquakes too?
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It shouldn't be too much of an issue considering Iceland is going to eventually join the EU.
Austria is in the EU, would you trust Jörg Haider with your gay rights mailing list?
Do 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
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Iceland_Mid-...
A 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 reas…
Icelanders vote for sane middle of the road goverments. Even during the financial crisis (which hit Iceland disproportionately) they didn't go extreme. Why would it be easy to change that? Easier than with larger countries?
I 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.
I was living in Canada last year and thinking the same idea in the freaking cold winter. I guess for North America it might be a better idea to put servers in the cold areas (e.g. Northwest Territories) in the same continent instead of running optic fibers under the ocean to Iceland and worried about earthquakes and volcanos ...
