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'runs' on 100 percent renewable energy. I hate British English so much.

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.

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

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

I was thinking it was along these lines:

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

(first line in Wiki article)

This is correct. Headlines are often written in the passive voice, e.g. 'Iraq Bombed' rather than 'So and so bombed Iraq'.

Or indeed 'Icelandic Data Center [was] run on 100% renewable energy [as a temporary experiment].' Oh grammar.

The British (more specifically the English) are the original creators of the English language.

It runs on 100% renewable energy. Is built to run on 100% renewable energy.

Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'

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