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20 million people move to Iceland

November 1, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

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On Iceland, servers are always cold. Ice cold, baby.

If Iceland could count their virtual visitors after the opening of the Opera Mini data center, it would be one of the biggest tourist hotspots on the planet. With the flick of a switch, more than 20 million Opera Mini users in Europe, Africa and Asia will travel via Iceland when using their mobile phones to surf the Web. The transition is seamless and requires no action from the millions of Opera Mini users.

Why Iceland?

Besides our historical relationship, Iceland is pretty badass with its thunder & lightning volcanos and geysers. It's also the natural choice for a Data Center location. The team at Thor Data Center has implemented a Data Center solution that utilizes what Iceland has plenty of; cost effective green emission free energy and affordable cooling. The combination of these factors gives businesses around the world an option to decrease their Carbon footprint while reducing data and application hosting costs, at the same time high data security and availability is maintained.

See more of the cool data center on Iceland.

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  • Tamil1. November 2010, 10:16

    :up:

  • Kai Ockendorf1. November 2010, 10:19

    Cool :yes:

  • d4rkn1ght1. November 2010, 10:29

    :up:

  • Mahaveer1. November 2010, 10:41

    Excellent

  • RJ1. November 2010, 10:53

    :up:

  • ejike alfred ubochi1. November 2010, 10:56

    congrats

  • pieRr0Ur1. November 2010, 11:40

    :up:

  • mistressEVIL1. November 2010, 12:07

    What exactly is affordable cooling? All the snow gets shoveled on the servers?

  • Charles Schloss1. November 2010, 13:30

    :up:

  • Vasudevan M1. November 2010, 13:46

    Cool :up:

  • idiologic1. November 2010, 14:31

    Maybe Björk will stop by? ;)

  • Artur „Jurgi” Jurgawka1. November 2010, 14:41

    Whow, the scenery is more futuristic than in Star Wars. :D

  • decodedthought1. November 2010, 14:42

    :up:

  • Uncle Mick1. November 2010, 15:00

    Cool photos, but some explanation of what exactly we're looking at would be helpful.

  • Cutting Spoon1. November 2010, 15:24

    Now please to get that cannon online. The one that shoots down satellites and rebel interceptors.

  • selurus1. November 2010, 16:18

    :cool:
    Now I'm a virtual resident of Iceland :lol:

  • Kamalesh1. November 2010, 16:32

    Very interesting, Espen. Sustainable power and auto-cooling from the local climate for the massive Opera Mini data center for EMEA...

    Btw, only for Opera Mini...or supporting Opera Turbo compression for desktop and Android phones in Opera Mobile, also?

  • Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli1. November 2010, 16:46

    Green emission free energy provided by Hákarl vapor. Well, not quite emission free as it really reeks.

    Cooling is provided by former Icelandic bankers, now shoveling snow over a grid made of their former work computers in Grímsstaðir.

    Just kidding. Maybe Iceland could become the new data center capital of the world?

  • Z4nd0ss1. November 2010, 16:56

    Originally posted by Jurgi:

    Whow, the scenery is more futuristic than in Star Wars.


    Haha :D I was just thinking that :D

  • Karolina K. Nowak1. November 2010, 17:31

    woah it looks sooooo cool :D

  • Morphdreamer1. November 2010, 19:04

    http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/albums/5114012/ice2.png

    Left side of bottom container - is that a fridge?! :cool:

  • Cthulhu Norris1. November 2010, 19:16

    Next step, Antarctica. And then the moon! Supa' cool!

  • Cutting Spoon1. November 2010, 20:46

    Originally posted by Morphdreamer:

    - is that a fridge?!


    "Thank God for Cold Fusion." *cracks a mandatory beer*

  • EngeL Saviour AngeL1. November 2010, 23:35

    That's owesome!

  • Siam Sabbir2. November 2010, 02:36

    Nice. It's simply cool. And also a nice idea. :)

  • wittaya malaratn2. November 2010, 04:03

    Greatt !! Awesome!

  • Andrew2. November 2010, 04:32

    Wow :)

  • julben2. November 2010, 05:53

    > Center
    >.<

    Guys, most of the Opera users are European; Opera is European! It's a centre! :D

    (Don't take this too serious ;))

  • stuart goddard2. November 2010, 06:54

    Err .........................COOL !!!!

  • Gaddag2. November 2010, 08:24

    Is it the reason/source of recent intermittent "Oops! Internal server error!" notices?

  • jonewu2. November 2010, 09:10

    Asia:sing:

  • Varun2. November 2010, 10:46

    I will never forgive Iceland, their stupid Volcano caused FC Barcelona to travel by Bus to Milan and loose as they were tired. :(
    Damn you Iceland. :irked:

    Get your volcanoes in line man. :p

  • Anjilit2. November 2010, 11:21

    Seems like our data packets will undergo a freezing before delivery. when does the thawing take place prior to consumption? (http://wwwdoxa.blogspot.com)

  • Dhananjay Bisht2. November 2010, 13:11

    Wow ,I am impressed.:hat:

  • Peter2. November 2010, 15:43

    Originally posted by anjili:

    a freezing before delivery.


    I that what you mean by "Compression"?

  • Антонина Баранова2. November 2010, 17:02

    :up:

  • Henk2. November 2010, 20:49

    :up:

  • Fabiola Pérez3. November 2010, 06:20

    :up: COOOL

  • Laura Otoo3. November 2010, 14:45

    While you're over there, not a minute will pass
    when I don't think about you. Always, you'll be
    with me in spirit, and I'll pray for your
    fortitude and safety, keeping my hope high in
    your noble and courageous heart. I have faith that God
    will watch over you and guide your every step
    until we're reunited.

  • Robert3. November 2010, 15:33

    Iceland is definitely the coolest place in the world to have a data center :D.

  • Afreen(افرين)3. November 2010, 19:27

    Hmm..IceLand..

    too cool for servers..haha..:up:

  • Gaddag3. November 2010, 20:28

    I don't find it cool, nor funny. During preparations and after the start of this oh so great center it's almost impossible to log on to Wattpad.com, and absolutely impossible open any file in the Wattpad rss. Similar difficulties at rozhlas.cz site. All this peppered with intermittent red sploshes with oops! and "internal server error." Don't be such ego-boosters. (PS. I hate to say this, but Bolt handles this with folded hands, alas.)

  • malxter4. November 2010, 00:04

    Yeah, beat that Firefox!

  • Muhammad Mansur Umar4. November 2010, 08:21

    Ha ha!
    Cool and great effort. Hulaaaaaaa! To all friends and visitors.

  • Mahaveer4. November 2010, 08:50

    Then this happy news ,v celebrate with our joyfull and great festival with diwali celebration ,wish all of u and to opera happy diwali ,

  • sangeeta mishra4. November 2010, 11:40

    dont make fool
    data center on iceland????????????????????????

    for what??????????

  • Mahaveer4. November 2010, 12:53

    U nt think tht data center in iceland is gud and happy news for us

  • malxter4. November 2010, 14:03

    "Read" the article. :whistle:

  • Mahaveer4. November 2010, 14:11

    Ok means i thinkd wrong tht ,after opening data center in iceland ,opera services improve in asia ,europe and africa thts nt good for me ,ok ,excuse me

  • malxter4. November 2010, 14:26

    Mahaveer, no need to be excused, I was aiming my comment at Sangeeta.

About this article

Published inChoose Opera
DateNovember 1, 2010
AuthorEspen André Øverdahl
Tagsiceland, servers, opera, android, beta, browser, campus crew, choose opera, chooseopera, community, contest, download
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