2013年3月24日星期日

Apple the nation's largest data center using solar green energy supply


According to Reuters, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer (Peter Oppenheimer) said on Thursday that the company's largest data centers in the United States is now completely green energy supply. Data center, equipped with a large number of solar panels and fuel cells to power the basic self-sufficiency.

The data center is located in the Maiden City, North Carolina, USA, is mainly used to support the Apple Internet data storage and iCloud service. Data center annual electricity needs of 167 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to 17,600 families a year spent amount. Apple data center relies on a 100-acre grid connected inverter farm by Bloom Energy fuel cell.

This is the largest occupied power generation facilities in the United States, Oppenheimer told Reuters. "We replaced in December last year to the use of these new energy," Oppenheimer added, "We are committed to by self-generating 60% of the electricity supplied to the data center, we are now moving in that goal."

Apple has bought the remaining part of the green energy facilities. Apple and other technology companies - such as Amazon and Microsoft - in the behavior of a large number of building and running computer data center has been widely criticized, because such facilities usually consume a lot of electricity and other resources. However, due to Internet traffic, streaming media content, mobile devices and host services market continues to expand, the data center in the future also facing explosive growth.

Oppenheimer said that Apple has its multiple facilities into the use of green energy, including in Austin, Texas, Cork City, Ireland, and the city of Sacramento, California, data center. Apple is currently the construction of another 20 million watts of solar power field Maiden City. The wind farm, solar panels by SunPower Corporation.

Apple said that the use of green energy has been increased to 75%. The ultimate goal of the company is the worldwide use of renewable energy for its facilities powered. Grid operators in Greece, Hellenic Transmission has announced that as of February, Greek solar charge controller PV installed capacity amounted to 1.615GW, February new 211MW to add 278MW decline compared with January.

This means that Greece's current total PV installed capacity of 1.732GW. The mainland total installed capacity of approximately 329MW from the scale is not greater than 10kW of photovoltaic systems. The installed capacity of the top three regions in central Greece (263.4MW), Peloponnese (235.9MW) and western Greece (192.7MW).


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  1. Green energy powered data centers are a great idea. With the modernization of information systems and the growing need for data center management, it is important that we find a renewable energy source to power this blossoming technology.

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