And all of sudden, in the 21st century, cold temperatures and cold places have gotten a newfound value, thanks to the advent of data centers to power industrial-scale Cloud services such as Facebook, Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, etc.
Cold regions - such as some parts of Sweden- which were previously scorned [as far as doing business is concerned] for being too cold, have now become ideal for natural [that is free] cooling. Who knows, some day technology companies might find the business case right for building massive computing data centers in the coolest parts of our planet, such as Greenland, Antarctica, Siberia [Russia], northern Canada, Alaska [USA], etc.
Cold regions - such as some parts of Sweden- which were previously scorned [as far as doing business is concerned] for being too cold, have now become ideal for natural [that is free] cooling. Who knows, some day technology companies might find the business case right for building massive computing data centers in the coolest parts of our planet, such as Greenland, Antarctica, Siberia [Russia], northern Canada, Alaska [USA], etc.