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[UKPRwire, Mon Nov 19 2007] The Icelandic national energy company, Landsvirkjun, decided last week to move future energy supplies away from the aluminium industry to more varied and eco-friendly sectors such as data centres.

Pall Magnusson, chairman of the board of Landsvirkjun, said, “This is a business decision…….we have wanted to increase our client base and diversify against risk, not to be dependant on one industry.”

The announcement marks an important shift in Icelandic energy policy, which in the past has largely concentrated on providing inexpensive power to new aluminium smelters. Furthermore, Landsvirkjun stated in a press release that for the moment it will not negotiate with aluminium companies planning to build in the south or west part of Iceland.

Verne Holdings, a joint venture of General Catalyst and Novator, has already announced it will be taking advantage of cheap, renewable Icelandic energy by building a data centre on the old NATO base close to Keflavik International Airport.

Check out this article talking about how data centers could be a next opportunity for businesses in Iceland particularly in the carbon neutral data center fields. There’s been a lot of discussion about how we reduce the energy costs in the data center, if we should be going carbon neutral in the data center, if so how do we do this?

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