Data centers require huge loads of electricity to maintain climatic conditions and run the servers carrying out billions of electronic transactions every day. With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution.
The 55,000 solar panels tracking the course of the sun from a 400,000 square meter field across the road from Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina were not in the picture seven years ago when Duke Energy and local government officials sought to entice Apple to open up a data center in North Carolina. (Grist, 7/28/2014)
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