ATNORTH
Q4 of 2024 – atNorth provides data centre services to international customers as well as advanced HPC and AI services . Since atNorth ’ s inception in 2009 , the company has been laser-focused on sustainability and has built its service offerings on the foundation that it operates in locations with access to renewable energy and where extremely high levels of energy efficiency can be achieved . For example , all its new data centres are built to reuse heat .
“ If you ask someone that doesn ’ t know the data centre industry what they know about it , normally the feedback that you get is that it is something slow , boring and not a lot happens , that it lacks excitement . But when you work in the industry it ’ s the exact opposite . What I love is the speed at which it ’ s moving .
“ Obviously that also includes all the great customers the industry caters for , but I think the importance of the data centre industry is how almost with all technologies that we are working with today in the data industry we can be extremely impactful in terms of sustainability .”
atNorth : Providing AI-ready infrastructure in the Nordics One of those growing technologies , unsurprisingly , is AI . For this reason , atNorth is extremely well focused on executing on its strategy to build a pan-Nordic deep data centre platform . Operating in Iceland , Sweden , and Finland , as well as working on a new facility in Denmark , atNorth anticipates that in the near future it can announce its footprint expansion to the last remaining unconquered Nordic country of Norway . “ In all of those markets in which we are building , we hope to especially cater
at North ’ s Reykjavik ICE01 data centre pictured in winter
for large-scale HPC and AI workloads ,” Kristinsson explained . As well as establishing themselves in metropolitan areas , atNorth is ensuring it has a footprint in more remote locations , too .
He added : “ There , we can cater for workloads in the magnitude of 100 to a couple of hundred megawatts . Besides that , we are also focusing highly on servicing our customers higher up the stack . We are operating AI and HPC-dedicated clusters for our customers and are doing a lot of innovation there .”
In recent months , atNorth acquired key HPC industry player Gompute . Since the acquisition , atNorth has leveraged the Swedish company ’ s platform to build on top of its own progress in the HPC and AI industry .
148 February 2024