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“ We ’ ve identified the optimum location , delivered a next-gen design and provided a truly sustainable colocation solution to the market ” and Rowe left Sky in 2013 . That ’ s when he directed his team to begin working on this idea . Rowe saw the change that was happening with the growth of the Internet and , particularly , of data and the need for a solution to cater for that .
Graf explains : “ David got a team together and along with Andy Long , the startup CEO , they went on a site selection mission around the world to work out where would be the best place to build the mostefficient kind of datacenter .
“ They decided on the north of Sweden , where Facebook had recently built its first data center outside the US . It ’ s very close to a superabundance of hydropower and it ’ s in the middle of one of the world ’ s most reliable electric grids , what we refer to as the Nordic Battery .
“ What that means is you ’ re able to get resilience by being connected to multiple grids and you do not need to build all the resilience onto your data center design . So you can have fewer
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