November 1st, 2011,
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and the post was tagged with amazon, business, canada, google, hardware, quebec, s3, usa
In 2007 I wrote a quick post about infrastructure opportunities.
I’ve also wondered previously about opportunities with cheap electricity, seems The Google and other huge server farms are spending more on electricity than on hardware, hello Hydro Québec joint venture?
Found this in September 2011:
The facility will run on geothermal and hydroelectric power – in Iceland, all electricity is from renewable energy sources. The project was commissioned by the UK start-up Verne Global, itself a data hosting company, which plans to use Iceland’s cheap power to undercut rival European offerings.
—World’s first zero-carbon data centre to be built in Iceland
And then this just last week:
The enormous server farm facility in Luleå, northern Sweden, to be announced officially on Thursday morning, is the first time that the social networking giant has chosen to locate a server farm outside the US.
“The climate will allow them to just use only air for cooling the servers,” said Mats Engman, chief executive of the Aurorum Science Park, which is leading the push to turn the city into a ‘Node Pole’, luring in other international computing giants.
“If you take the statistics, the temperature has not been above 30C [86F] for more than 24 hours since 1961. If you take the average temperature, it’s around 2C [35.6F].”
—Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle
See, now that would have made for an interesting Plan nord.
[Update on Nov. 7th] Thought so, seems they are on it (FR) but Hydro didn’t find the idea interesting enough 3 years ago. Merci Josée pour le tip.
February 12th, 2010,
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and the post was tagged with copyright, europe, freespeech, iceland, legal, quebec
I haven’t thought of it much so I’m sure there’s angles to be considered which might affect my opinion but at first glance I love this idea. Iceland is in the process of passing a package of laws to become a haven for investigative journalism.
On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the world.
Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an “offshore publishing center” for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?
…the amendments would cover source protection, whistleblower protection, immunity for ISPs and other carriers, freedom of information requests, and strong limits on prior restraint. They would also provide protection against libel judgements from other jurisdictions, much as the United States may soon do with the Free Speech Protection Act of 2009.
—Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
Also see: The video of the Berlin talk where the concept was presented, The Guardian with Iceland aims to become haven for investigative journalism and BBC with Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’.
September 3rd, 2009,
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[Pub gratos] Il n’y a vraiment pas grand compagnies pour lesquelles je travaillerais, malgré les bouts plattes je suis très content d’être à mon compte mais une des très très rare boîte qui entrerais dans ma réflexion s’appelle iXmédia à Québec. Équipe de production et de direction allumée, sympathique et qui comprennent vraiment le web. Pleinement recommandé.
Ils se cherchent présentement un Programmeur Web Senior. Si vous fittez le profil et habitez ou voulez déménager à Labeaumeville:
iXmédia est à la recherche d’un(e) programmeur Web senior pour se joindre à la plus belle équipe de web à Québec (oui! oui! rien de moins).
iXmédia est un leader dans le développement Web à Québec depuis 1995. L’entreprise développe actuellement des projets très stimulants et compte parmi ses clients le Musée de la civilisation, Trudeau, Desjardins, GlaxoSmithKline, Jeunesse Canada Monde, Gesca et plusieurs autres.
—iXmédia recherche : Programmeur Web Senior