Could not find a datacenter further north, but now the witness is up and running with a private full node for bot heavy services like @booster and @speedvoter etc...
This upgrade is way over the top, but it serves multi purposes and make the STEEM network much stronger geographically
From Svalbard, we have lines to Russia/China, Scandinavia/Europe/Africa, and UK/Canada/USA so a great meeting point for packages coming from east to west and south to north.