This icelandic company is also hosting a few clusters: advania.com/datacenters

Well after a lot of very helpful and interesting private messages I think the direction I want to go is to setup a small colocation for people looking for low cost kWh within a secure location.

Gives me a lot to research and do for the next while, I will certainly post when I have something serious to offer if its worth doing.

Oh snap, thanks for posting that!

This is Thor DC, we bought them over (advania did) last year.

Haha yeah never been involved in hardware side, I actually currently work only with our IBM mainframe.

42 is the whole full rack, so the most you would pay for 10 would be this, but likely you would then want to just add 2 more avalons to use up the space.

Colocation package - Full rack up to 7 KW

Rack in 3 T enviroment, full rack, up to 7 KW
4KW power included

Physical Ethernet port 1 Gb RJ45

/29 5 IP addresses

2TB of internet traffic included

Physical Ethernet port 1 Gb RJ45

Ethernet management port for servers 1

1 hour remote hands included per month

Price: 990 EUR per month

Here's the height per rack, I measured the depth to be 70cm as well as 50 cm wide for these racks.

http://i.imgur.com/vNtSYh5l.jpg

Ok so lets say if your talking 10 Avalons, roughly 170 CM high, plus 1u additional,  maybe a roundup to 5cm per space x 10 avalons 35-37 racks. Oh and yes the prices on the website are per month, I will ask our hosting sales guy what he would offer for a 10 stack of avalons, will let you know when I hear back.

Edit: Hmm looking closer again, 4.5cm per rack seems to be what we should be going by..

Just talking to our hosting guy on lync, I'm going down soon to the DC to get some better measurements. I'll let you know what he says.

Will be based on rack space requirements, I am going down today to get exact measurements and figure out the typical BFL and avalon space requirements. 1 rack space costs 53 eu with all power costs included, and 2 rack space costs 85 eu.

The question will be how much can we fit depending on your setup in one rack or two, the key being no extra costs for heavy power usage, which if you fill lots of avalon or BFLs in the rack space could be very very cheap in the scheme of things.

I have a unique opportunity to offer a service helping miners from around the world host and support their mining operation.

The data center I work for is a very cheap option for those wanting to co-locate their mining rigs, and I would be then available for tech support for those who run into issues with their miners.

I would take a small fee to be on call, the DC would hold the contract with you of course (large Icelandic IT company) and this would be from my early research a very low cost option for serious miners.

Does anyone have any tips or advice, and questions on this idea?

From their FB site, I asked about if they will offer something in between the 6 GH and 250 GH and they said this:

Where did they say the $2795 for 6 GH?

Yes bitcoin is like vikings, going to rape, murder and plunder the world! 

Yeah true, we are still under strict currency controls but there is a real buzz about bitcoin here, just the question being what would be the next step, hopefully the new coalition government will be friendly to bitcoin, my bet is they will be as any hint of being supportive of our banking system means loss of voter support, there is a poll recently that puts bankers less liked than rapists.

In Iceland the pirate party is about to get 3-4 seats in our next parliament. I have been talking with them to hopefully get some discussion on Iceland being a friend nation to bitcoins, we are in a unique spot I think to be welcoming to bitcoin since our citizens revolted with our previous government after our banking collapse.

The idea of bitcoin is an easy sell in Iceland, now we just need to get some politicians talking about it and allow for Icelandic banks to support a real bitcoin exchange or something similar.

I was just about to put some money into the bitcoin-24.com account today then I see now their bank account was seized!

As a newbie trying to get money up on an exchange other than mtgox to buy some coins, I am very weary and lost as to where to begin. Thanks for this thread, its very helpful!

lol!

Ouch, that stings, my sympathies man.

ddos is no easy beast to slay.