Stockholm, Sweden – April 27, 2022 – atNorth, a leading high-performance colocation provider, has announced that it has joined the Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA), which aims to bring together the entire ecosystem around the fast growing data center industry in Sweden.
The SDIA is proactive in supporting its members and the development of the growing data center industry by making sustainability issues a priority, encouraging and supporting research and innovation projects, and enabling the industry to grow.
atNorth, Nordic Sales Director, Stefan Jofors-aTribe commented, “We are pleased to join our data center colleagues in this very important organization for our industry, it is crucial to us that we are actively involved with influencing the industry’s development in the Swedish market. We have an enormous number of important industry-wide issues to work on resolving. Of course, sustainability is at the core of atNorth’s operations and will always be our priority. We are also keen to undertsand how we can support the rapid digitalization of society through the construction of a functioning infrastructure.
“atNorth’s existing sites have been designed to operate with the lowest carbon footprint possible, with 100% renewable energy, making them extremely energy efficient. So, with energy prices soaring in the UK and parts of Europe this is absolutely critical to the industry’s future and something that we are keen to influence,” added Stefan.
The SDIA brings together a number of key Swedish and international players currently active in the information technology ecosystem. atNorth is the latest member to join its fellow leading data center operators, electricity suppliers and data center infrastructure providers.
“We are very happy that atNorth has chosen to become a member of the SDIA. Their experience of, and commitment to, our issues in combination with their greater knowledge of the international data center industry will be a vital contribution to our business going forward,” commented Fredrik Lindahl, Account Manager at SDIA. “They are also an interesting example of the new generation of data centers, who have adapted to today’s very advanced calculations and simulations.”
Find more information about SDIA here.
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About atNorth
atNorth is a leading Pan-Nordic data center services company that offers sustainable, cost effective and scalable high-performance computing across Iceland and Sweden. The company operates three data centers in strategic locations across the Nordics, while a fourth location is under construction in the north of Iceland.
With sustainability at its core, atNorth’s data centers run on 100% renewable energy resources and support circular economy principles. All atNorth sites leverage innovative design, power efficiency, and intelligent cluster operations to provide long-term infrastructure deployments. Its tailor-made solutions enable businesses to calculate, simulate, train, and visualize data workloads in an efficient, cost-optimized way.
atNorth is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. The business was founded in 2009 and subsequently acquired by Partners Group in 2022. For more information, visit atNorth.com or follow atNorth on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
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