Airbus is considering moving energy intensive high performance computing centres from France and Germany to Northern Europe.

Airbus CIO Guus Dekkers has commented that increasing energy costs in France and Germany have made the prospects of moving supercomputer sites to colder European sites attractive and would be able to provide savings of 20 percent.

In other news Airbus completed a deal with Russian airline Transaero for the purchase of four Airbus A380, worth $1.7 billion at list prices. The aircraft will operate on European, Central American and Asian routes.