Iceland beats England again

Iceland is the best place on earth to locate a data centre, according to real estate outfit Cushman & Wakefield's most recent Data Centre Risk Index.

The (reg-walled) index considers the cost of energy, international bandwidth, taxes, political stability and other factors to cook up a ranking for data centre hosts.

Iceland topped the charts thanks to a combination of low power prices and taxes. The prevalence of renewable energy helped, too.

European nations took out the top five spots on the Index, with Norway, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden trailing Iceland into spots two through five.

The United Kingdom is in ninth place, followed closely by the United States in tenth.

Singapore is seventh, behind Canada. South Korea came in eighth.

China claimed 35th place and India fell over the line into 36th , just ahead of last-placed Nigeria. ®