Big Green Data

several municipalities and private companies in northern sweden are joining forces to create a platform and enable data center activity to be attracted to the region. our northern county is sweden's leading industrial region that offers a very powerful and reliable power grid, delivering renewable energy, with one of sweden's most competitive electricity taxes. our sites are all located next to a major flood or sea that can provide cost-effective cooling. we can offer greenfield- brownfield- and rock center-locations. all in a cold climate. since google set up in the nordics in 2008, the following brands have chosen the nordics as their domicile: in sweden facebook in 2011, ericsson in 2013, digiplex in 2013, and in finland yandex in 2013 and microsoft in 2013. follow-up investments have been made in sweden by sungard (2013), interxion (2013) and telecity (2012/13). sweden is ranked first among the nordics, and third in the world as a datacenter location, by the “data center risk index