1. BMW’s cold call: It shifts computing to Iceland

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    BMW’s cold call: It shifts computing to Iceland
    You could call it a crash landing. German car and motorcycle stalwart BMW is transferring crash simulations and other high performance computing to Iceland, where the country’s 100 percent renewable electricity and year round “free” chilling will slash carbon emissions and costs. BMW plans to run 10 high performance computing clusters in a data center outside Reykjavik owned by London-based hosting company Verne Global. Verne opened the center recently in a former NATO munitions base in Keflavik, about 29 miles southwest of the capital, partnered with British telecom firm Colt.
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