Environment

Data Íslandia does not endorse or support the Icelandic government's decision to resume commercial whaling. We are also a supporter of UNICEF and contribute to Amnesty International.

A commitment to the global interests

Most data centres consume huge amounts of non-green energy, half for running storage systems and the other half for cooling those same systems. With the added burden of the buildings themselves, the consumption electricity from carbon-emitting generation grows without check as a matter of necessity to meet compliance and governance demands.

Storing data is not a matter of choice. Unfortunately, the amount of data requiring storage increased at rates above 100% per year. The burden increases with on-line commerce growth, and as more and more mobile and other personal devices are put on the global market, increasing the number of digital files to be stored. Digitalisation of all manner of media, while greatly improving the quality and durability of recordings, also puts more demand on data centres.

Physically moving data to green-positive locales

The Data Scooter provides the means to greatly reduce carbon emissions associate with data storage. Given the very long periods which regulations demand data be retained, up to 70 or more years, the carbon costs in the use of aircraft or overland trucking to move data is nearly immediately compensated for by decades of continuous green operations after transfer. Given the hundreds of thousands of megawatts a day consumed by data centres, the carbon costs can be seriously counterbalanced by transfer of non-operational data and records to places like Iceland.

Defining stewardship and green responsibility

Green, for Data Íslandia, is not just about energy use. It is about both corporate and personal responsibility to use energy resources intelligently, think in Big Picture terms about the true environmental costs of growth, and improve the quality of life locally in the communities we work in as a positive example for sustainable economic, social, and biological, and aesthetic balance.

We are located in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas in the world. The people of Iceland have depended on the sea and the land itself, not industrial activity, for survival for longer than most other modern nations. Data Íslandia, in building a new economic sector, is committed to sustaining the respect Icelandic