Icelandic Data Center Escapes Ash Fall
Verne Global, a data center developer based in Keflavik, Iceland and Washington, D.C., is building a 44-acre data center facility on the site of a former NATO Command Centre in Keflavik. It's situated on 1.5 million year old bedrock, which means the local earthquake impact would be no greater than in northern New Jersey, according to Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global.
"Picking a strategic location is the first step when building a data center. You take into account hurricanes, tornadoes, snowfall, wind, flooding, earthquakes, and volcanoes," says Monroe. The data center's location in the western part of the country means prevailing winds have blown the ash from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano away from the site and toward northern Europe, Monroe says.
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