Ismail Afara

atNorth ehf is a leading Nordic data center services company that offers environmentally responsible, power-efficient, and cost-optimized data center hosting facilities and high-performance computing services. The company is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and has subsidiaries in Sweden. The company was founded in 2009 by Benedikt Gröndal, and the CEO is Eyjólfur Magnússon Kristinsson. The Icelander company operates seven data centers in strategic locations across the Nordics, with additional sites to open in 2024 and 2025. The tailor-made solutions enable businesses to calculate, simulate, train, and visualize data workloads in an efficient, cost-optimized way. atNorth's data centers run on renewable energy resources and support circular economy principles. atNorth was acquired by Partners Group (Private Equity) on December 21, 2021.