Iceland

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A dispute over an abolished tax rebate for whalers means there will likely be no fin whale hunt off Iceland this year, the head of the only company that catches the giant whales said Wednesday.

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One of the the great things about Iceland in summer is the Midnight Sun phenomenon. With daylight throughout the night, Anna Melville-James enjoys a spot of late golf on the Westman Islands.

With more volcanoes than human beings, boiling water gushing out of the ground and youths protesting by banging pots and pans, Iceland is an off-beat treat discovers Mark Palmer.

A geothermal plant in Iceland

Iceland’s gigantic energy reserves,A generated from renewable sources like geothermal vents, are all dressed up with nowhere to go—it’s too expensive to get power from the chilly island to anywhere else. But transporting data to and from the island is a different story. Iceland is starting to attract companies that build giant server farms, lured by the cheap electricity and the possibility of being able to market “green” power.

As we’ve noted before, data centers, which store information people put in the cloud and handle processing tasks that keep the Internet chugging along, are huge energy users. Their demand for electricity is growing by leaps and bounds, with some estimates holding that by 2020, they will use quadruple the energy they did in 2007.

Proposals that data centers move to places where renewable energy is cheap are not new. But a short article over at Technology Review notes some signs that this proposed shift is actually happening. Iceland, seeking to turn its electricity surplus to a profitable use that’s more environmentally friendly than aluminum smelting, which is the current major user of electricity on the island, is courting data centers, …

Each week we invite three companies to offer us their best deal for a specific holiday. Today: a short summer break in Iceland. Prices are per person, based on two people travelling together. All packages include three nights’ accommodation in the capital Reykjavik and flights from London in June.

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