Ordinarily I wouldn’t be writing multiple stories about technical previews of a new browser, but Jon von Tetzchner’s new Vivaldi keeps coming up with surprises even before it hits the beta… Read more »
It’s one thing to try crowdsourced legislation in relatively small, cohesive societies such as those in Finland and Iceland, but a whole different ballgame when you try it on a population… Read more »
Iceland’s citizens were given a chance to help forge a new constitution for their country through Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not surprising that they backed the resulting draft. Now it’s… Read more »
The Finnish government has approved the technology behind a new ‘Open Ministry’ platform, which will act as a hub for citizens who want new laws voted on in the country’s parliament… Read more »
The question of where to build your data center has become increasingly complex as the power demands of data centers themselves have grown, making power the largest operational cost for data… Read more »
Changes in the power market are rippling through the Internet industry, altering both the location of data centers and their sources of power. Read more »
This week’s Weekly Update looks at recent attempts by UK universities to save money and pool resources by building themselves a private cloud. The Register reports news of a Further Education… Read more »
Colt, the British data center specialist, is building what it and Verne Global call the world’s first “zero emissions” data center slated to come online in four months. Located on a… Read more »
The abundant geothermal energy that Iceland is using to power its new breed of data centers comes at a cost; the sub-surface activity that generates all that hot water also makes… Read more »
Iceland’s Thor data center is to be home to a new supercomputer, serving the needs of researchers hundreds of miles away across the Atlantic in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Iceland’s data… Read more »