Kolos data center planned for Arctic Circle in Norway set to greenest in world - TomoNews
- 7 years ago
BALLANGEN, NORWAY — A U.S.-Norwegian company is planning to build what they claim will be the world's biggest green data center.
The Kolos [k][l]data center is slated to be built at Ballangen within the Arctic Circle in northern Norway, BBC News reported.
The center will be fully powered by sustainable hydropower and wind energy, which combined with the cool climate will lead to a 60 percent reduction in energy costs, according to the Kolos website.
The site will eventually cover a total of 600,000 square meters.
The data center will initially draw on 70 megawatts of power, which is scheduled to rise to 1,000 MW within a decade.
The planned size of the Kolos facility would make it larger than a data center in Langfang[m], China that is currently the world's biggest, according to BBC News.
However it won't be as big as the Switch Citadel Campus in Nevada, which is still in development and will eventually be the largest data center in the world at more than 668,000 sqm.
The Kolos [k][l]data center is slated to be built at Ballangen within the Arctic Circle in northern Norway, BBC News reported.
The center will be fully powered by sustainable hydropower and wind energy, which combined with the cool climate will lead to a 60 percent reduction in energy costs, according to the Kolos website.
The site will eventually cover a total of 600,000 square meters.
The data center will initially draw on 70 megawatts of power, which is scheduled to rise to 1,000 MW within a decade.
The planned size of the Kolos facility would make it larger than a data center in Langfang[m], China that is currently the world's biggest, according to BBC News.
However it won't be as big as the Switch Citadel Campus in Nevada, which is still in development and will eventually be the largest data center in the world at more than 668,000 sqm.