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DATA CENTRES
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 .