Greenlandic telco Tusass has broken ground on its new data center in Nuuk. The company this week announced the first blasting for the new facility was carried out on Monday March 3.

In Nuuk, Greenland’s northernmost capital, a new political reality is taking shape as the Arctic nation prepares for parliamentary elections on March 11. The catalyst? U.S. President Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring the mineral-rich territory.

But geographically, the island nation doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.

LONDON -- The prime minister of Greenland warned President Donald Trump off his controversial ambition to acquire the territory, writing on social media Wednesday, "Greenland is ours."

In most other years, an election in a sparsely populated Arctic island would fly largely under the radar. But as voters in Greenland head to the polls on March 11, they’ll be doing so under the shadow of US President Donald Trump wanting to take control of the semi-autonomous territory from Denmark.

President Trump promised to annex Greenland, the self-governing island that is part of the kingdom of Denmark. “I think we’re going to get it, one way or another we’re going to get it,” he said. Denmark has fiercely resisted Trump’s attempts to seize Greenland from Denmark,

Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland.