[填空题]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 gree