Icelandic data center run on 100 percent renewable energy(itworld.com)
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Icelandic data center run on 100 percent renewable energy
http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/213395/what-s-behind-iceland-s-first-major-data-center
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'runs' on 100 percent renewable energy. I hate British English so much.
I'm the original submitter and I'm American and I did intend to write "runs!" Ugh. But: I do agree that one could interpret the headline as "data center [is] run on..." Wasn't my intention though. Even in British English I don't think it would be right to use "run" in the active voice though. "IceLandCo run on renewable energy," yes, but "data center" is conceptually singular even to the Brits. Also, it would be a "data centre" probably. OK, I'll stop now.
I'm British and 'runs' sounds correct to me too in this case. It looks like a typo to me.
This could go several ways:
Icelandic data center [being] run on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [that is] run on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [is] running on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [that] runs on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [being] run on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [that is] run on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [is] running on 100 percent renewable energy
Icelandic data center [that] runs on 100 percent renewable energy
This is correct. Headlines are often written in the passive voice, e.g. 'Iraq Bombed' rather than 'So and so bombed Iraq'.
Or indeed 'Icelandic Data Center [was] run on 100% renewable energy [as a temporary experiment].' Oh grammar.
I was thinking it was along these lines:
Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996...
(first line in Wiki article)
Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996...
(first line in Wiki article)
The British (more specifically the English) are the original creators of the English language.
It runs on 100% renewable energy.
Is built to run on 100% renewable energy.
Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'
Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'
One of the biggest server hosting providers in germany ,hetzner, uses 100% renewable energy since a few years. (http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/unternehmen/umweltschutz)
FYI, this is pretty easy in a country that has boiling hot water and steam right below the surface.
There are a lot of buildings in Iceland that run on renewable energy, this isn't anything new or exciting.
There are a lot of buildings in Iceland that run on renewable energy, this isn't anything new or exciting.
Yep, Iceland is blessed with way, way more exploitable geothermal energy per capita than any other country. In fact, their geothermal power per capita is 40 times as much as the next runner up, New Zealand.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_geo_pow_use_percap-geo...
Unfortunately, geothermal isn't exportable.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_geo_pow_use_percap-geo...
Unfortunately, geothermal isn't exportable.
Yes it is - you just currently export the entropy in the form of Aluminium reduced from Aluminium oxide, in the future you will export it in the form of bits.
That is not a problem for Iceland of course, since strong volcanic activity makes sources very reliable. If it's not causing earthquakes.