The Volcano….is there risk of ash damaging our valuable equipment?
The prevailing winds in Iceland are from the West and as all potential data centre sites are located to the West of the Volcanic areas, the risk of ash reaching them is extremely low. In any event, a Data Centre can switch from free air cooling to a closed loop system; data centres in Iceland can benefit from water cooling solutions that make use of abundant supplies of free cold water (ocean and lake), so particulates in air are of no consequence to such a system. Data Centres do not operate at the ultra high temperatures that grounded jet engines recently and now that the necessary due diligence and testing has been undertaken, it is becoming clear that anysuch risk has been grossly overstated.
