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GREEN MOUNTAIN DATA CENTRES Norway

Green Mountain Data Centres are colocation data centres, meaning they are used by multiple clients to locate their critical IT equipment in a safe secure temperature controlled environment.

The company is financed by the Smedvig and the data centre near Stavanger has been operating since May 2013. It is in an ex NATO underground ammunition store on an island near Stavanger. It is about 22000 m2 in overall size. The second data centre in Rjukan has been in operation for 2 months. Rukan has multiple hydro power stations nearby to power the data centre.

Both data centres are powered by hydro electricity and therefore have zero carbon emissions. As a result they have won several industry awards.

Clients include large financial institutions, IT companies and Oil & Gas industries.

In order to ensure that the IT equipment is always running [millions of € could be lost if IT equipment is off line] there are many provisions in the design including multiple grid power supplies and stand by generators that start automatically should the grid supplies fail. The cooling for the IT Equipment at the Stavanger site is provided by the adjacent fjord via a heat exchanger which is very efficient as a consequence.

All services are duplicated to ensure power and cooling are never lost to the IT Equipment.

In the Stavanger data centre fire is prevented by reducing the oxygen level below that of combustion, [18%] so that fires cannot start. As a result there are no refrigeration or fire extinguishing gases on the site.

The facilities are designed and operate to the Uptime Institute Tier 111 certification standard, a world wide industry standard.

Green Mountain http://greenmountain.no/

Smedvig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedvig

Data Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center

Uptime Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime_Institute