Data Centre Magazine June 2021 | Page 67

CABLING in cloud computing and facilitate the age of digital innovation where more industries – such as healthcare and enterprise as well as scientific research – are able to access the extensive benefits of HPC ,” he says . “ The high costs previously connected to the technology needed to capture , store and analyse vast amounts of data used to be barriers to such industries , but the IRIS cable will be the third connection between Europe and Iceland meaning it will diversify Iceland ’ s telecommunications and increase Iceland ’ s accessibility as a home for high density compute .” With sufficient amounts of available subsea cable , the costs of HPC will fall as capacity rises , and data centre operators like Verne Global will be there to cater to demand .

Fridström adds that , with new available markets opening up for HPC comes “ More diversity and with that more competition , which will always benefit Enterprise customers that use HPC solutions within their production or testing environment .” Regarding the IRIS cable , he continues : “ As both Iceland and Ireland offer quite good terms for hosting these HPC servers , a good connection between these two countries will make an interesting set up … diversity with high availability is key or HPC solutions .”

Verne Global HQ

Located on the outskirts of

Keflavik , Verne Global ’ s Icelandic campus is a highly secure , highly sustainable , 60,000 square metre hub of advanced HPC infrastructure . The campus is unique globally in providing HPC Cloud and two forms of HPC Colocation – enterprise ready and ultra high density - all from the same facility .

The campus receives all of its power from Iceland ’ s 100 % renewable mix of hydroelectric and geothermal electricity , delivered through a grid ranked second in the world by the World Economic Forum for its reliability .

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