Post Tagged with: "iCloud"

Apple’s data centers now powered entirely by renewable energy

March 25, 2013 6:25 PM0 comments
Apple’s data centers now powered entirely by renewable energy

Apple‘s data centers are now powered 100 percent by renewable energy and 75 percent of their facilities are solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal sources. But unfortunately, the  Apple and the Environment report finds that their greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 34 percent (30.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions) in 2012. [...]

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Apple to build another 200 acre solar farm in North Carolina

September 23, 2012 10:17 PM0 comments
Apple to build another 200 acre solar farm in North Carolina

Apple has reportedly purchased another 200 acres in North Carolina so that it can build another solar farm to help power its massive iCloud data centre. According to AppleInsider.com, details of the $3 million land deal were released recently. Apple will buy nearly 220 total acres in North Carolina’s Catawba [...]

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Apple’s dual 100 acre solar farms revealed in aerial photos

September 15, 2012 1:24 PM0 comments
Apple’s dual 100 acre solar farms revealed in aerial photos

With a multi-billion dollar budget that keeps Apple afloat, it is no doubt the software giant’s ecological footprint is probably a big one. But the company is looking to ease that footprint when a massive solar farm in the U.S. goes online. New photos captured from the sky show that [...]

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Is cloud computing green?

July 14, 2012 1:12 PM0 comments
Is cloud computing green?

At first glance it might be easy to consider that cloud computing is green. The name evokes nature, for a start, but beyond that one might immediately think to saving paper for print outs (as you can access your data anywhere), or not needing power hungry, constantly on servers in [...]

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Apple Goes Green

May 23, 2012 8:20 AM0 comments
Apple Goes Green

Apple Inc. has made an announcement on Apple’s website promising that their 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina will be powered by renewable sources by the end of this year. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters: “The plan we are releasing today includes two solar farms and together they will be twice as big [...]

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Apple planning solar & biogas facilities to power iCloud

April 9, 2012 12:30 PM0 comments
Apple planning solar & biogas facilities to power iCloud

Now that Apple’s massive North Carolina datacenter is online, and it’s powering the business’ iCloud service, many are curious about what is going to be done with the adjacent areas of land that have been cleared for some type of construction. Some suspected it was for another datacenter, but according [...]

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