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 
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.