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Apple Inc. owns and operates many structures around the world, including offices, stores, factories, data centers and energy facilities.

Offices and stores[edit]

Apple Campus is the main headquarters, while Apple Campus 2 is in the final stage of construction. Apple has local headquarters and offices in Ireland, England and Israel, and 478 retail stores in seventeen countries.[1]

Data centers[edit]

Apple has data centers in Prineville, Oregon; Maiden, North Carolina; and Reno, Nevada.[2][3] They provide information storage and processing for Apple's online services like iTunes, App Store, iCloud and others.

The $1 billion Maiden center is 505,000 square feet.[2][4]

The data center in Reno Technology Park was built in 2012[5] and is being expanded.[6][7]

Apple is building data centers in Ireland and Denmark at $1.9 billion,[2] expected to use between 876 and 2190 GWh of electricity per year.[8]

Energy[edit]

Apple created a company called "Apple Energy"[9] in 2016[10] and invested in energy sources (usually renewable), sometimes close to the power-consuming data centers.

In USA, Apple has 218 MW of solar power.[11] Apple is building a 10 MW fuel cell landfill gas energy plant near its data center in North Carolina,[12][2] and builds a 200 MW solar farm with NV Energy to serve its Reno data center.[13]

In China, Apple owns 210 MW of solar and a 30% share in 285 MW of wind power.[14]

In Denmark, Apple cooperates with a university in providing biogas to supplement wind, hydro and solar power for its coming data center.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Apple Stores: Everything We Know". MacRumors. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Apple Data Center, Servers & Infrastructure FAQ". Data Center Knowledge. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  3. ^ "Sandoval: $1B Switch data center coming to Reno area". Reno Gazette Journal. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  4. ^ "The Apple Data Center FAQ, Part 2". Data Center Knowledge. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  5. ^ http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/apple-to-build-data-center-at-reno-technology-park/66267.fullarticle
  6. ^ "Apple files new 'Project Huckleberry' permit at Reno area data center site". Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  7. ^ http://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2015/05/22/apple-reno-data-center-expansion-100-percent-renewables/27737641/
  8. ^ a b "New research will provide Apple with renewable energy – when the wind is not blowing". October 6, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  9. ^ "Apple Creates Energy Company to Sell Renewable Energy it Generates". Data Center Knowledge. June 10, 2016. Archived from the original on June 12, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  10. ^ "Apple forms subsidiary to sell excess clean power". 10 June 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  11. ^ Weaver, John Fitzgerald (2016-06-10). "Apple Energy deeper dive: Is this Apple running its own microgrids or more?". Electrek. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  12. ^ "Catawba County approves lease for Apple's renewable energy center". HDR | Hickory Daily Record. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  13. ^ "Apple to build 200MW of solar with NV Energy". Jan 25, 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  14. ^ "Apple invests in China wind farms". deccanchronicle. December 9, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.

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