Iceland's Data Center Push Finally Gets Traction 117
miller60 writes "Iceland is poised for the completion of its first major international data center project, after years of marketing itself as a potential data center mecca. Iceland offers an ample supply of geothermal energy and an ideal environment for fresh air cooling, but its ambitions were slowed by the global financial collapse. But now the huge UK charity Wellcome Trust has provided funding to complete a new data center in a former NATO facility in Keflavik."
Re:What is the bandwith to iceland anyways? (Score:2, Funny)
I would rather build my data centre in Lazytown.
Location (Score:2, Funny)
Never underestimate the bandwidth... (Score:2, Funny)
...of a floating ice floe. The latency might be large, but it will definitely outperform a Volkswagen.
Re:Eastern Canada then? (Score:4, Funny)
Because nobody wants to translate all the packets to French and back again.
Re:Eastern Canada then? (Score:4, Funny)
actually, you would be required to have your packets with headers in both languages.
The server isn't responding (Score:2, Funny)
"Yeah, I think it's frozen"
Iceland - the McDLT of Countries (Score:3, Funny)
sigh... I'm old.