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suivix
'runs' on 100 percent renewable energy. I hate British English so much.
nobody314159
It runs on 100% renewable energy. Is built to run on 100% renewable energy.

Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'

chris_j
I'm British and 'runs' sounds correct to me too in this case. It looks like a typo to me.
pyre
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

suivix
I was thinking it was along these lines:

Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996...

(first line in Wiki article)

evilneanderthal
This is correct. Headlines are often written in the passive voice, e.g. 'Iraq Bombed' rather than 'So and so bombed Iraq'.
anigbrowl
Or indeed 'Icelandic Data Center [was] run on 100% renewable energy [as a temporary experiment].' Oh grammar.
jfruh
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.
coin
The British (more specifically the English) are the original creators of the English language.
socialist_coder
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.

jessriedel
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.

nobody314159
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.
vilda
Note that geothermal energy is not - in general - considered a renewable energy. The source will loose energy over time.

That is not a problem for Iceland of course, since strong volcanic activity makes sources very reliable. If it's not causing earthquakes.

ugh
Solar energy is also not forever and technically not renewable. The time horizon is what's interesting, that's what makes solar energy renewable.

So what's the time horizon for geothermal energy? If it's more than a millenium I would have no problem calling geothermal energy renewable.