About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Briefs

Options Technology Expands Private Cloud with New AI-Optimised Datacentre in Iceland

Subscribe to our newsletter

Options Technology has launched a new AI-optimised private cloud datacentre in Iceland, aimed at enhancing security, high-performance computing, and sustainability for capital markets clients. The facility, designed for high-density private AI workloads, offers a 72% reduction in per kVA costs compared with traditional U.S. sites. Powered entirely by renewable energy, it enables clients to achieve zero carbon emissions while benefiting from advanced liquid cooling systems, closed-loop water infrastructure, and sub-100ms connectivity to both Europe and North America.

The Iceland deployment responds to increasing demand from hedge funds, investment banks, and trading firms seeking secure and compliant environments for scaling AI workloads. It marks the first stage of Options’ wider infrastructure modernisation programme, with further AI-ready environments planned across global financial hubs in 2025 and beyond. The announcement follows a series of recent milestones, including recognition in the Broadcom/VMware Global Partner Program, expansion of its Cambridge operations, and the extension of Microsoft Cloud Solution Partner capabilities into Dubai.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: Reviewing the Latency Landscape and the Next Generation of Ultra-Low Latency Infrastructure

Date: 17 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Ultra-low latency is no longer the preserve of a handful of proprietary trading firms. As new asset classes electronify, data volumes surge, and regulatory expectations around execution quality and resilience tighten, the performance demands on trading infrastructure are broadening...

BLOG

Challenging the Status Quo: Re-imagining the Trading Desk for 2026 and Beyond

The opening session of A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit Europe set a pragmatic tone for the discussions that followed. In a fireside chat between Stuart Lawrence, Head of EMEA Equity Trading at UBS Asset Management, and Monika Fernando, Product Leader, FinTech & Digital Platforms and former Head of Global FI Client Data & Analytics at...

EVENT

AI in Capital Markets Summit London

Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.

GUIDE

Trading Regulations Handbook 2022

Welcome to the third edition of A-Team Group’s Trading Regulations Handbook, a publication designed to help you gain a full understanding of regulations that have an impact on your trading operations, data and technology. The handbook provides details of each regulation and its requirements, as well as ‘at-a-glance’ summaries, regulatory timelines and compliance deadlines, and...