The campus is 183-acres has a 505,000 sqft facility as well as a smaller 21,000 sqft "tactical data center.
In 2010, Apple reported that just 16% of its total facilities were powered by renewables. Within just six years, that number skyrocketed up to 96% in 2016. In 2018, Apple said that it has achieved 100% renewable energy. Source: cleantechnica.com.
As of early 2018, Apple had 25 operational renewable energy projects around the world, totaling 626 MW of generation capacity. Notably, 286 MW of solar PV generation came online in 2017. There are 15 more projects under construction that represent over 1.4 GW of renewable energy generation across 11 countries.
In Prineville, Ore., the Apple signed a 200 MW power purchase agreement for an Oregon wind farm, the Montague Wind Power Project, set to come online by the end of 2019.
Apple’s data center in Maiden, N.C., is supported by projects that generate 244 million kWh of renewable energy per year, which is equivalent to the energy used by 17,906 North Carolina homes.
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The campus is 183-acres has a 505,000 sqft facility as well as a smaller 21,000 sqft "tactical data center.
The site was a former a sapphire-glass factory that supplied glass to Apple. The glass maker filed for bankruptcy and vacated the building in 2014. Now the 1.3 million square foot building is one of Apple’s data centers
The data center will be located next to one of Denmark’s largest electrical substations, which Apple said will help it eliminate the need for additional generators. The facility is designed to capture excess heat from equipment inside and conduct it into the district heating system to help warm homes in the neighboring community.
In 2017, Apple announced plans to expand the campus by an additional $1 billion. The expansion would add "8 clusters" of buildings with the total square footage of 372,893.
Apple initially started in 2012 with 160 acres in Prineville to build a 338,000 square foot data center. At the time the facility planned to draw 20 Megawatts. Now the campus is set to grow to 3.2 million square feet.
The 400,000 sqft data center will not be complete until 2020. Apple plans to build two "state-of-the-art" data centers on a 2,000-acre portion of a 3,500-acre site Waukee annexed in June
As of April 2019, work on the data center has reportedly been stopped.
Apple's first data center in Asia was built in the Hong Kong territory near the Shenzhen border. Construction started in 2013 and was finished in 2015.
Prospective Irish data center for Apple has has had many starts and stops over the years
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2022 Apple's Environmental Progress Report (for the year ending 2021) |