Apple’s Green Plans Scorched By N Carolina Residents

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1. Apple fails again to get on the right side of green even though it is building a solar power array Apple is in the early stages of installing an array of solar panels for its data centre in Maiden, North Carolina, it has been revealed. This project, code named Project Dolphin Solar Farm A Expanded, could be seen as an effort by the company to improve its environmental image after repeated criticism over its track-record in China and its reliance on “dirty” sources to power. Slash and burn not very green Unfortunately, the company is in the process of burning and clearing 171 acres of green space near its 500,000 square foot iDataCentre - built in 2009 to house data for iTunes, MobileMe and iCloud – to build a solar power array. If estimates are to be believed, the solar power would only provide a maximum of 24 Megawatts, a fraction ... (Read Full Article)

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