The new cool, that’s what we are all about

Thor Data Center uses a new type of natural free cooling technology, jointly developed with ASTmodular in Spain. The lower container holds the racks while the cooling units are housed in the upper space. Outside air is pulled into the cooling unit which cools the air inside a closed air circulation system. In this way, no outside air comes into direct contact with the computer equipment inside the container.

The free cooling facilities within each container are designed to take into account the total load for all equipment currently hosted and future needs. The technology is a natural free cooling technology developed by ASTmodular in co-operation with Thor Data Center. This technology gives ThorDC the opportunity to run the data center at very low PUE levels. Latest test results from ASTmodular show a PUE result of 1.07.

Thor Data Center is a Tier3 facility, as specified by the Uptime Institute, with dual connections to Iceland’s power grid. Power enters the building from two different locations, passes through redundant UPS backup batteries and N+1 diesel backup generators. The power feed is 400-800A to each POD and 16/32/64A to each rack. Power is monitored to the individual container and individual racks on request. The benefit of this enterprise class UPS system is its mean time to restore (MTTR) which enables the Operations team to replace individual modules with onsite spares. The N+ 1 system also combines “hot spares” so in the event of failure the modular system will automatically engage its redundant spare.

All network connections are double to each POD and house-in-house environment. Connections to the Internet are via multiple fibre cables provided by Mila and FarIce. Bandwith can be provided by multiple service providers and an Internet peering service in London and Copenhagen.. Thor Data Center can provide Internet connections to its customers up to 10Gb.

Thor Data Center is ISO27001 certified.