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These countries aim to exploit two contradictory facts: information can now be stored anywhere, but energy is most efficiently consumed close to the source. ______ Internet Villages International has joined up with Atlantis Resources, an engineer of ocean turbines, to develop technology that could power local data centers with energy from Scotland’s rugged seas. Another company, Lockerbie Data Centres, is planning a green home and business community centered on a clean-energy data facility that runs on wind farms and a biomass plant.A. Thus several Scottish IT developers arc now planning nearly $3 billion in green data centers that tap into Scotland’s clean-electricity grid, 20 percent of which comes from renewables like wind.B. Google disputes this number, but there’s little doubt the IT industry is becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming.C. Iceland, struggling to recover from the financial crisis, may be even better poised to become a green data hub.D. In the U. S. , data centers now account for 1.5 percent of total electricity use, and that’s expected to double by 2011.E. And a handful of cold northern nations are now looking to attract a piece of the $110 billion global industry.F. Giant Internet companies are usually secretive about the size of their data centers and the energy they use, but Google says nine of its largest centers use at least 45 megawatts total, eight times the size of Verne Global’s metri

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