THE NORDICS: A LEADING SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTRE DESTINATION

WRITTEN BY: MAYA DERRICK

There are plenty of factors that come into play when it comes to choosing a site for a data centre – whether it be network latency, plans for expansion, natural disaster risks and workforce. And with these facilities emitting huge volumes of power, that comes with a price to the environment and a significant carbon footprint. There’s no doubt about the fact that sustainability is growing ever important to the industry – and at a time where data centre demand is also booming, sustainability remains at the top of the agenda. Sustainability solutions can be applied to existing sites, but when building new facilities, green initiatives come from the ground up – and many considerations are made before ground is broken.

Location is key. Data centres must be located in well-connected areas with access to many carriers and multiple redundant fibre connections to major bandwidth providers. But when it comes to sustainable locations –there’s no place like the Nordics. Well, at least that’s the view of atNorth.

atNorth

atNorth is a data centre technology company that has, since its foundation in 2009, been focused on building efficient data centres that are leading when it comes to sustainable practices. Moving away from sustainability just being about renewable energy for powering data centre infrastructure, atNorth’s message and practices have evolved into a broad spectrum of what a data centre operator needs to take into account to ensure respectful use of resources.

With renewable energy still a very hot topic, how data centres can participate in the circular economy has been a core mission for atNorth. Striving to be as efficient and respectful of resources as possible is atNorth’s guiding light. atNorth operates both data centre facilities, which are colocation data centre facilities built to suit facilities for customers that have large scale needs, and in recent years has been catering to customers that have highperformance computing and AI services needs, meaning that they can consume compute power as well.

atNorth’s ICE01 data centre campus, located in the Reykjavik area IMAGE: ATNORTH