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Olafur V Sigurvinsson is an Icelandic Entrepreneur.

Olafur V Sigurvinsson came to life in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. He later became entrepreneur when he started Islandia Internet, one of the first Internet Service Provider companies in Iceland back in 1993. After his introduction of the Internet to the Icelandic people he went to Denmark where he started a company with Alexander Aghassipour, founder of Zendesk, Martin Von Haller Grönbæk, lawyer and more good people, designing technical infrastructure for large Danish companies like Carlsberg, Lego and Novo Nordisk. He later went to work with Ericsson selling infrastructure solutions in US and Sweden. Olafur started first data center, Datacell, in Reykjavik, Iceland 2009 and has been devoted to bleeding edge technology in data centers and AI development as we see it up to this day. His newest venture AI Green Bytes focuses on AI infrastructure immersed in cooling liquid and by that saving up to 50% energy compared to traditionally cooling technologies for cooling data centers.

Olafur started the first data center in Reykjavik, Iceland back in 2009 and 2010 the company started hosting Wikileaks, an non profit journalist organisation that has been criticised for releasing data showing US army committing war crimes and soon after Datacell took on the responsibility to host data for Wikileaks and collecting donations the card companies, Visa and Mastercard through their local partner, Valitor closed for card payments to Datacell. Datacell started a legal case that took 10 years.


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