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The MV Fugro Galaxy outside Green Mountain's data center DC1-Stavanger.

Seabed survey for NO-UK submarine cable completed

The NO-UK submarine cable project, connecting Newcastle to the Norwegian landing point at Green Mountain, has reached a new milestone. Several weeks of seabed survey in the North Sea is now finalized and the project is on track for completion in 2021. This 700 km long subsea fiber cable will significantly increase data capacity between Norway, the UK, and the rest of the world.
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From inside the DC1-Stavanger Data Center Facility.

Green Mountain announces first Megaport enabled data center facility in Stavanger

Norwegian colocation services provider Green Mountain announces availability of Megaport, a leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider. Megaport’s deployment offers Green Mountain’s customers access to over 350 service providers on the Megaport platform including leading cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and others.

Leadership Panel at Datacloud Nordic 2019

Leadership forum at Datacloud Nordic 2019 -

Leadership forum at Datacloud Nordic 2019 - A discussion about Norway’s advantages in the Nordic DC race. CSO Svein Atle Hagaseth sums up the panel discussion at Datacloud Nordic in copenhagen on December 3rd. Panelist: Xuan jin from Alibaba Cloud, Tor Kristian Gyland from Green Mountain, Petter Tømmerås from Basefarm, Gisle Eckhoff from Digiplex and Peder Nærbø from Bulk Infrastructure.

The new subsea fibre cable will be connected to the Euroconnect-1 fibre ring.

Subsea Fibre Cable between Norway and UK - Landing at Green Mountain

A fibre consortium consisting of Green Mountain, Lyse, and other partners announced that they will build a new subsea fiber cable connecting Norway to the UK. The cable landing station will be located in Green Mountain’s data center outside Stavanger on the west-coast of Norway. This 700 km long NO-UK cable will be completed in 2021 and strengthen Norway as an attractive data centre location.

Green Mountain nominated for DCD Awards 2019 for data center expansion at Rjukan.

Green Mountain on the DCD Awards shortlist 2019

Green Mountain is honoured to be among the finalists on the DCD Awards shortlist in the category Multi Tenant Data Center Design Award 2019. We are shortlisted based on our expansion project at DC2-Telemark, where two new data buildings with a total capacity of 2,75 MW were designed specifically for the Volkswagen Group in order to support their High-Performance Computing operation needs.

CEO, Tor Kristian Gyland, in excavator with Mayor of Enebakk, Oystein Slette, in front.

Green Mountain builds new colocation data centre in Oslo region

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.

Tor Kristian Gyland i gravemaskinen med ordfører i Enebakk, Øystein Slette, foran.

Green Mountain bygger nytt datasenter i Oslo-regionen

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.

The new data centre for the Volkswagen Group at Rjukan.

Volkswagen Group officially opens data centre at Green Mountain’s colocation site in Norway - powered by 100% renewable energy.

• 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

Det nye datasentret til Volkswagen Gruppen på Rjukan.

Offisiell åpningsseremoni hos Green Mountain: Volkswagen Group åpner datasenter på Rjukan

• 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.

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Green Mountain designs, builds and operates highly secure, innovative and sustainable data centers in Norway and the UK. The data centers are powered by low-cost, 100 percent renewable power and are world-leading on energy efficiency.

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