atNorth News: June 2024
Welcome to the fourth monthly instalment of atNorth News, where we gather all our latest updates from the past few weeks in one place for you to review again.
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Before we break for the summer, we thought we'd take a look back at some of our top stories from the first six months of 2024.
JANUARY
Sustainability Magazine published an interview with atNorth CEO Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson where he discusses the atNorth growth journey and how it continues to push innovation in the wake of AI. Read the article Sustainable AI ready infrastructure in the Nordics
FEBRUARY
Following publication of the CoolIT Systems customer success Case Study, Luc Wagemakers EMEA Area Manager for CoolIT penned a Guest Blog entitled - The role of Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) in supporting today’s modern, sustainable data center. Read his insightful article and learn more about DLC technology.
MARCH
Capacity Media - a techoraco brand selected our ICE03 campus in Akureyri, Iceland as their Data Center of the Month. Reliable international connectivity / sustainable operations / suitable climate - these where just a few of the USP's highlighted. Read the complete article here .
Also in March, Advania Group expanded their partnership with atNorth with additional data center capacity at our ICE03 campus. Advania is a?long-standing customer of atNorth. Commenting on the announcement our CEO Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson “We are proud to be able to offer increased services where security and connectivity is ensured, and carbon footprint is?minimised”. Read the story here .
APRIL
In April we appointed a new Chief Development Officer, Anna Palsdottir - an experienced engineer - Anna will be tasked with guiding atNorth’s development initiatives, driving the expansion of our existing sites, and delivering new data center campuses across the Nordics. Learn more about the appointment here .
The Greener Data movement was launched this month, with volume two published and reaching number one on the Amazon best sellers list in 24 hours! atNorth CSMO Fredrik Jansson is a contributing author. His chapter talks about how innovation, customers and consumers will fuel the movement and create a?lasting legacy for our?children. Read his fascinating blog and watch the video as he outlines his story.
MAY
Always a busy month for award nominations and for us, a double award win! The Tech Capital recognized our partnership with Shearwater GeoServices and award us "Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year" and then a few days later we won "Colocation Provider of the Year" reflecting the transformational business growth journey we are on. Learn more about Shearwater GeoServices from our guest blog by Nick Riddalls Global Head of Processing as he outlines the growing importance of location to drive cost efficiencies and sustainable IT. Read his insightful blog here .
The AI‐TechPark interview with our COO Erling Gudmundsson explored how AI impacts digital infrastructure and how atNorth is shaping a sustainable future for data centers in the Nordics. "We are only at the cusp of what technology and digitalization is capable of – first and foremost, we need to align as an industry to create meaningful changes that will stand the test of time and innovation." Read his compelling interview here .
As the business continues to scale to meet the increasing demand for our services, we appointed J?rgen Larsson as Director of Hyperscale Operations. J?rgen is tasked with overseeing the startup of all atNorth’s new data centers as part of our data expansion?strategy. Data Centre Magazine published a fascinating introduction to our latest DC expert - you can read the online article here .
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JUNE
Recognized by the RAC Cooling Industry Awards for our innovative cooling technology and dedication to customer service, we are shortlisted for "Customer Initiative of the Year". The awards aim to celebrate innovation, best practice and business excellence across the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors.
“The cooling of digital infrastructure is becoming a fundamental factor in choosing a data center partner and we are committed to raising awareness of more sustainable options in the industry.” Anna Palsdottir CDO atNorth
Read the press release and see the full list of categories and nominees.
Key takeaways from Datacloud Global Conference
After attending the event for the first time, Director of Site Selection Johann Thor Jonsson reflected on his key moments in this latest employee blog.
From explosions in Big Data to sustainable value chains, he weighs up the many panel discussions and adds his own thoughts on how best we can achieve a greener future in the data center industry. Read his review here .
PowerCurve - a customer success story
PowerCurve , a global provider of blade aerodynamic solutions for the wind turbine industry, estimates that by putting atNorth’s Gompute HPC platform at the heart of its aerodynamic?innovations, it has been able to increase the resulting wind turbine annual energy production by at least?10%.
"With atNorth’s Gompute HPCaaS platform, we can run larger, more complex cases, which improves the accuracy of our results and provides deeper insight that we can leverage to make even greater improvements to wind turbine?performance." stated Nicholas Gaudern CTO at PowerCurve.
atNorth’s Gompute HPCaaS platform delivers High Performance Computing, either as a?Private Cloud service with bare-metal compute nodes for HPC workloads or as Bursting Clusters, reducing total cost of ownership while ensuring ultimate time to market, great performance, and a?sustainable approach
Download our latest Case Study and learn more about how we can help you.
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We are taking a break for the summer and will be back with the next edition in August. Hoping all our colleagues, partners, customers and followers enjoy a relaxing and restful summer. Recharge and rejuvenate.
atNorth is a leading Nordic data center services company that offers sustainable, cost-effective, scalable colocation and high-performance computing services trusted by industry-leading organizations.
With sustainability at its core, atNorth's data centers run on renewable energy resources and support circular economy principles.? All atNorth sites leverage innovative design, power efficiency, and intelligent operations to provide long-term infrastructure and flexible colocation deployments.? The tailor-made solutions enable businesses to calculate, simulate, train and visualize data workloads efficiently, cost-optimized.
atNorth is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland and operates seven data centers in strategic locations across the Nordics, with additional sites to open in Helsinki, Finland and in Denmark in Q4 2024, as well as its tenth site ready for operation in Kouvola, Finland in 2025.