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Apple has recently unveiled plans to build a $2 billion solar-powered data center facility, in Mesa, Arizona.
Apple says the data center facility in Arizona will be powered by 100 percent clean energy, including new solar plants developed with local utility Salt River Project and it will act as “a command center” for its global data center network. The solar plants will provide 70 MW of solar power for Apple, which is enough solar energy for 14,500 Arizonan homes. Apple also has clean energy powered data centers in North Carolina and Nevada.
Greenpeace applauded Apple’s 100 percent clean energy-powered facility on Monday. Apple execs said that 70 MW worth of new solar farms could also help spur Arizona’s solar market.
The ambitious project is one of the largest investments that Apple has ever made and when completed it will add over 600 engineering and construction jobs.
Via Gigaom.com