Green Mountains has acquired a large area close to Oslo with line-of-sight capacity of 40 MW. The official construction of the first 4 MW building starts September 1st, estimated completion in September 2020. A substantial international client has already signed a contract for the entire first data centre building.
Green Mountain har anskaffet et stort område i Enebakk nær Oslo for etableringen av sitt tredje datasenter. Offisiell byggestart for den første 4 MW bygningen er 1. september, estimert ferdigstillelse Sept. 2020. Et stort internasjonalt selskap har allerede signert kontrakt for hele det første datasenterbygget.
• Built in only 6 months and runs entirely on renewable hydroelectric power. High-tech cooling solutions also make it very energy-efficient • The Volkswagen Group will use computing power for the digitalized vehicle development of Volkswagen Cars and AUDI brands • The government’s data center strategy has been an important factor in attracting large-scale international customers to Norway
• Regjeringens datasenterstrategi har vært en viktig faktor for å tiltrekke seg store internasjonale kunder til Norge. • Volkswagen Gruppen vil bruke datakraften i senteret til sine utviklingsprosjekter for Volkswagen og Audi passasjerbiler. • Datasenteret ble bygget på kun 6 måneder og er drevet av grønn vannkraft samtidig som moderne kjøleløsninger gjør det meget energieffektivt.
Green Mountain was announced the winner of the “Excellence in Regional Data Centre Award Europe” during the Datacloud Awards 2019. CEO, Tor Kristian Gyland, accepted the award at the gala dinner at Le Sporting Club in Monte Carlo on June 4th.
Green Mountain CEO, Tor Kristian Gyland, gives his thoughts on the recent developments for Green Mountain and the outlook for the rest of 2019.
Green Mountain, one of the world’s greenest operators of high security, robust wholesale colocation data centres, has been shortlisted for three awards at the upcoming DCS Awards. The DCS awards are designed to reward the product designers, manufacturers, suppliers and providers operating in data centre arena.
Norway’s market leading data centre provider Green Mountain have seen tremendous growth through 2018, and have now signed an agreement to expand their footprint at DC2 Telemark – Rjukan.
Green Mountain’s €31.5M investment will increase data centre capacity by 35MW across two sites in Stavanger and Telemark. Integrated solution includes Schneider Electric Prefabricated Data Centre Power and Cooling modules with LV & MV switchgear. Schneider Electric picked to ensure 6-month deployment deadline is achieved.
The world is changing around us. It is now more important than ever for companies to think green. BeeBills strive to be a part of the solution and not the problem and have now moved our servers to Norwegian data centre provider Green Mountain. Built in a former NATO facility in Norway, Green Mountain is a data centre which offers 100% renewable power and free cooling 365 days a year.
Sometimes summer gives you the opportunity to reflect for a moment. As we met up in the office in August a few of us realized we had been thinking about the same thing – what’s going on in the IT market these days – and how can we help companies to be better prepared for the future?
Congratulations to Knut Molaug, former Green Mountain CEO, now Board member, for a well deserved honorary award from the global data centre industry, Leader of the Year! He wins on behalf of Green Mountain for his brilliant work towards customers and communities, the whole data centre industry AND Norway! Thanks Datacloud Europe & Awards 2018 for giving Knut and Green Mountain this honorary award!
