UK tech investors buy data centre from the land of ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

A UK investment company created earlier this year to invest in digital infrastructure assets has splurged £231m to acquire a sizeable data centre in Iceland on the site of a former NATO airfield and naval base. The Verne Global site – which was established in 2010 and harnesses power from hydroelectric and "predictable" …

[jmch]

+++ points...

... for the Immigrant Song reference

[Anonymous Coward]

And in Norse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc

[IGotOut]

Let's hope they know...

...about the toxic wasteland that the US base in Iceland is.

[macjules]

Re: Let's hope they know...

Luckily their only goal is the western shore.

[John Jennings]

couple of potentially interesting things about datacentres in Iceland

Iceland has some interesting fibre links currently - Denmark is the main connection (and thats a spying hub).... UK comming soon with US/Canada in place at the moment...

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/01/iceland-plan-new-undersea-fibre-optic-link-to-uk-and-ireland.html

Conversly, Iceland (since its crash) is known as a data haven for offshoring 'sensitive (to somone)' data with pretty strong data protection laws......

https://www.fastcompany.com/3022156/lets-all-grab-our-ipads-and-move-to-iceland

[Anonymous Coward]

Just . . .

Don't tell the crypto miners.