“ The closer you are to the sea cable landing the closer you are to where your users live ”
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to connect it to the outside world . Until very recently , three such cables ( about the “ width of a garden hose ”, according to Verne Global CEO , Dominic Ward ) were the country ’ s only significant links to the rest of the digital world . The FARICE-1 cable joins Iceland to the UK ; the DANICE connects Iceland to Denmark and then on to the rest of mainland Europe ; and the Greenland Connect joins Iceland with , unsurprisingly , Greenland , subsequently linking it to Canada and the US . Now , however , a third connection to Europe is being built - “ a connection between Iceland and the west coast of Ireland named IRIS ,” explains Cantrell . He adds that , not only will the IRIS cable create additional redundancies that safeguard Iceland ’ s
“ The closer you are to the sea cable landing the closer you are to where your users live ”
MATTIAS FRIDSTRÖM VP & CHIEF EVANGELIST , TELIA CARRIER
digital connectivity , but more importantly perhaps , “ enterprises can look to cash in on the environmental and economic benefits of housing their compute workloads in an
Icelandic data centre .”
Iceland , as we mentioned before , offers attractive amounts of renewable power and the kinds of average annual temperatures that reduce the need for that power considerably . Cantrell explains that this will be a key enabler of delivering HPC to more companies in a sustainable way . “ Investment in HPC is being seen as crucial across regions and industries , and crossregion coordination and capacity sharing is integral to these investments paying off . New cables , such as IRIS , support wider growth
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