Data centers migration safe haven: Northern Europe

Data center migration. It is reported that some countries in northern Europe (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have invested more than 3 billion euros in data centers in the next three years.

The Nordic region is the gold rush area in the next data center. In the next three years, the data center of the Nordic countries has invested 3 billion 300 million euros. More importantly, half of the investment comes from companies outside the Nordic region.
Based on the survey results of 112 data center operators in the area, the market size of the third party data center will increase by nearly 2 times by the end of 2017, the data center space will increase by 2 times, and the electricity demand will increase three times.
Denmark is benefited from technology giants' favor to the geographic location of data centers. Apple Corp is building a next data center in Denmark, which is a typical example.
Iceland is another country that can provide land for data center suppliers and a large amount of renewable energy. Verne is a center in Iceland data center, located in the original Keflavik NATO air base, which provides connections across the Atlantic connecting the East and West ends of the basic.
Why is it built here?
Why do data center operators like to build a data center in the Nordic countries? On the one hand, it is a mixed market. On the other hand, these countries are not only rich in land, but also rich in renewable energy, such as wind power and hydroelectric power.
One day in July of this year, Denmark's wind power produced 140% of the electricity demand of its population, and even offset the additional demand from Germany, Norway and Sweden.
To meet the requirements of energy saving targets of green advocates and governments, Nordic countries can not only provide renewable energy, but also offer attractive tax incentives, so that multinational data centers can benefit from them.
According to the author of BroadGroup, the price of electricity in Nordic countries is very low, and the price of industrial electricity in the Nordic countries is the lowest among the 28 countries in the European Union.
The report finds that the energy providers in these countries can provide as low as 0.03 euros per kilowatt hour, while the data center in northern Sweden and Western Norway has the lowest electricity cost.
Natural cooling
"Lower power costs, green energy, connectivity between local and international investment, preferential tax policies, natural cooling efficiency and abundant resources are all attractive to any global company's international IT deployment plan." The data center industry personage says. Now in a period of time, the environmental factors of the data center are becoming more and more important.
Multinational data center operators are deploying data centers around the world, such as Google, apple, Yandex and Facebook, to invest in building data centers abroad. The report says, in some cases, this affects the digital ecosystem.
Therefore, people should pay attention to the Nordic region, for it is possible to witness the vitality of its growing data center market.