A consortium of companies is running a proof-of-concept for a turnkey cloud service delivered from a data center located in Iceland, powered entirely by renewable energy to help customers meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) obligations.
Icelandic New Energy and NORA collaboration
Launched as IceCloud Integrated Services, the project claims to offer a highly customizable private cloud service to meet business demands for a cost-effective scalable platform to handle cloud-based workloads, AI and other compute-intensive jobs. The claim is that it also results in lower operating costs, partly due to the cold climate.
The consortium is led by UK data center infrastructure company Vesper Technologies (Vespertec), but includes cloud software company Sardina Systems and Borealis Datacenter in Iceland.
Sardina's part in this is that it provides the cloud platform. This is the company's Fish OS, its distribution of the OpenStack private cloud framework, which integrates Kubernetes and the Ceph storage service.
