Inexpensive green energy and free cooling. Extensive power grid. Strategic location and key customers. Google in Hamina, Finland.

1. The Finnish
Datacenter
Stronghold

2. Motivation: Cool and stable bedrock
Potential: State of the art fiber and
electricity networks
Competition: Not enough to make
a difference in the above
Demand: The world is your oyster
When: Ongoing
Data centre opportunities in Finland

3. Inexpensive green energy and free cooling

4. Electricity Prices (Eurostat)
Finland
Price for Italy is provisional
No price data for Austria
Source: Eurostat Electricity prices for industrial consumers, 2011 (in EUR/kWh)
Without taxes and levies Non recoverable taxes and levies

5. State of the art fiber and electricity networks
Extensive, reliable power grid Solid fiber network connections
ensures flow of information

6. Solid granite bedrock
– no fear of major natural hazards
Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/finland/seismicity.php
Seismicity Map of Finland
1900 to 2013

7. Strategic location and key customers

8. Great cities to enter in R&D purposes
Capital area, Helsinki
 Mobile software, UX
 Game industry
 Nanotechnology
 RF communication
Tampere
 Mobile software & platform development
 Game industry
 Camera, imaging and picture manipulation
Oulu
 Security research
 NFC, RF communication
 Embedded systems
Salo – Turku
 Hardware design
 Lean manufacturing development
Note: Many locations
outside larger centers
are eligible for European
Regional Development
Funds (ERDF).
HelsinkiSalo, Turku
Tampere
Oulu

9. Skilled personnel available
Key areas of expertise
 User interfaces
 Touch screens
 Service design
 Symbian, MeeGo, Android, iPhone
 Location based solutions
 RFID based solutions
 TETRA networks
(Terrestrial Trunked Radio)
 Mobile gaming
 Mobile analytics
Some vertical areas of
leading edge expertise:
 Energy metering
 Power and heat production and distribution
 Environmental monitoring
 Oil and gas transportation monitoring
solutions
 Logistics solutions.
A world class pool of
Scientists and Engineers
Wages index: Finland 100,
Sweden 115, USA 170

10. Case Google: Re-inventing the paper Mill
 Large volumes of cheap electricity
 Green energy
 Water for cooling purposes
 Large areas of land for privacy and security
 The distance to other Google data centers
 Tax incentives
 Solid infrastructure with a green renewable
energy production on site
 Waterfront site, free cooling 365 days
a year
 Security and space for future expansion
 Existing 24/7 service infrastructure
Google’s criteria
for data center location
The criteria was met by
Finnish paper mill in Hamina

11. For more information about datacentre
activity in Finland:
Invest in Finland/datacentres
Tivit
(Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the Field of ICT)
Case: Google
Case: TelecityGroup
Case: Yandex

12. Why Finland?
Entry to the East
Creative solutions
Stable Society Competent professionals

13. Invest in Finland services for
international companies
 Data collection & analysis
 Opportunity analysis
 Guidance on entry alternatives
 Networking
 Location management
 Setting up a business
www.investinfinland.fi