Thought Leadership and Insight from Staffan Reveman, Business Sweden

Staffan Reveman

For this edition Datacloud spoke to Staffan Reveman, Advisor for Business Sweden in Germany

1. Datacloud: What do you see as the future drivers for the industry?

Cloud and Edge Computing

2. Datacloud: What regions within the Nordics do you see as primed for IT asset expansion?

Where we have access to hydro power and possibilities for heat reuse.

3. Datacloud: What is one of your key goals for the next year and how do you expect to achieve it?

To reduce energy costs and CO2-output from German data centres by utilizing sites in the Nordics. The German data centre industry has to use sustainable EU-sites for all applications where latencies > 5 ms can be accepted.

4. Datacloud: How can the sector help to improve society?

In major CO2- and cost reductions. German data centres cause 5.6 million t of CO2 output this year. With hydro power ist could be reduced to zero.

Staffan Reveman and Data Centers by Sweden will be at the Datacloud Nordic 2018 congress in Copenhagen November 20th. Meet them there