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Green Mountain completes yet another 2.5 MW expansion at its mountain hall facility. The built-to-suit project for a large international cloud provider was.
In an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park, Green Mountain secures 50.000 m2 of land in one of the most modern and sustainable industrial areas in Norway. The agreement enables Green Mountain to realize their construction plans for yet another data center site. The location is ideal in terms of power, connectivity, and infrastructure.
Haugaland Business Park, located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, is one of Norway s largest fully regulated commercial areas of 5,000 acres, prepared with green renewable energy.
Green Mountain has great growth ambitions and Gismarvik is one of the areas they have considered for a long time. It is powered by renewable hydropower and when the new planned power cable is ready in 4-5 years, up to 500 MW of power will be available.
We are proud to announce that Green Mountain CEO, Tor Kristian Gyland, has been honored with the Data Centre Solutions’ “Data Centre Industry Contribution of the year” award 2020. This is an award recognizing an individual who has made a significant contribution to the data center industry in EMEA. Gyland was nominated for his immense contribution in building and promoting Norway as a data center location.
“I am truly honored to win this Industry Contribution Award. Especially since the winners are chosen by voting.” says Gyland. The winners of the DCS awards are voted for in their thousands by the readers of Data Centre Solutions, Digitalisation World, members of the Data Centre Alliance as well as peers, clients, and other aspects of the supply chain. “It also shows that the industry is recognizing the great development that is happening in the Norwegian DC industry”, Gyland continues. It is only in the recent years the industry has opened its eyes towards Norway a