atNorth News: May 2024
Welcome to the monthly instalment of atNorth News, where you get another chance to catch up with all our most recent updates in one place.
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Director of Hyperscale Operations appointed
J?rgen Larsson joins as Director of Hyperscale Operations as we continue to scale in order meet the increasing demand for our services. He spent 11?years with Meta (formerly Facebook) where he was instrumental in the company’s global expansion. As part of our data center expansion?strategy, J?rgen will be overseeing the start-up of all atNorth’s new data centers. Read more about the appointment here.
Significant industry wins and nominations
May was a big month for award wins and nominations! Firstly, recognition for the ‘Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year’ at the Tech Capital Awards for our work with client, Shearwater Geoservices. Second win for ‘Colocation Provider of the Year’ award at the Electrical Review &?Data Centre Review Awards.
Nominations followed for Datacloud Global Awards, The Energy Awards and the Women in Green Business?Awards. We look forward to reporting on this next month! Read more about our awards and nominations.
Where to meet the team
Before we wind down for the summer break, the team have a few events in June, both attending and speaking:
Make sure you follow our main company page for the latest updates on who you can meet at which event to discuss everything to do with our sustainable infrastructure, energy optimisation and our future expansion plans!
This month's Thought Leadership and Blogs
The growing importance of location to drive sustainable IT
Our guest blog this month features Nick Riddalls Head of Processing at Shearwater GeoServices as he explains how migrating their workloads from the UK to atNorth’s ICE02 site has demonstrated huge savings, from cost to climate. Shearwater have gained a?true competitive advantage with an environment first?approach - read his insightful blog here.
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Flight of sustainability: Learning from migratory birds
Looking at sustainability from a different perspective, atNorth Sustainability Manager ásdís ólafsdóttir talks about a topic close to her heart - migratory birds - and how our actions could change their environments. If we take time to put sustainability at the forefront of our daily activities and decisions, then the whole practice becomes a?lot easier and less?overwhelming. Read her fascinating blog here.
AITech Interview with atNorth COO Erling Guemundsson??
atNorth COO Erling Gudmundsson chatted with AI Tech early in May about how AI impacts digital infrastructure and how atNorth is shaping a?sustainable future for data centers in the?Nordics. But with demand growing at an exponential rate, how can we future proof the next generation of data center infrastructure with data growth, high performance compute, and the environment top of mind? Read his captivating interview here.
DataCentre Magazine delves into our new Hyperscale?Director
Renowned data centre expert J?rgen Larsson joins atNorth at a?pivotal time within the industry and aims to bolster the company's substantial growth plans, but who is J?rgen? Data Centre Magazine takes a look at his exceptional experience and how he will apply these in his new role. Read their online article here.
Come join our team!
We are always on the lookout for talented, driven, and knowledgeable professionals to join our team of technology and data center experts. If we don’t currently have a role that suits you, please feel free to get in touch directly with our People & Culture team.
New opportunities added recently include: -
We have more than 15 opportunities available - view all our active roles here.
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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.
Well Done Elli and all the team at atNorth.