1. BMW moves into Icelandic data centre

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    BMW moves into Icelandic data centre
    BMW, the German car maker, is to move some of its high-performance computing capabilities to data centre in Iceland, in a bid to reduce its carbon emissions. The data centre, operated by Verne Global, is located in a disused NATO command centre in Keflavik, in southwest Iceland. It draws its electricity from a nearby geothermal power plant and uses Iceland's cold air to keep temperatures down. Verne Global claims that it is the world's first "zero carbon" data centre.
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