Apple To Build The Largest End-User-Owned Solar Array In America
The facility, which is being constructed in Maiden, N.C., has been awarded LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, the company said in its report.
"We know of no other data center of comparable size that has achieved this level of LEED certification," the company said in its report. "Our goal is to run the Maiden facility with high percentage renewable energy mix."
Although brief, this is the first information the company has publicly revealed about the project. The company won approval last October to reshape the slope of 171 acres of vacant land it owns adjacent to the data center in preparation, according to permits issued in Catawba County. However, the permit offered no details about the solar farm project itself, including its size.
Apple has reportedly spent $1 billion to build a 500,000-square-foot behemoth of a data center in city. Apple uses it as part of the back-end behind iCloud, it's storage and sync service the company launched last October. Apple's servers also power Siri, the voice assistant on the iPhone 4S.
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