Apple is building a solar power plant in Nevada
Reuters has reported that Apple is planning to build a new solar power plant with a contract organization NV Energy. It is expected that the new plant will supply electricity to a new data center Apple, located near the city of Reno, Nevada. Earlier, the world's leading IT companies have been criticized for the creation of large data centers, the power of which consume large amounts of electricity, causing significant emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere .
Over the last year or two of Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple are independently started to build the so-called "green" data centers that feed in varying degrees by the energy from renewable sources. The companies say that the construction of data centers - is vynezhdennaya measure that allows them to cope with the growing volume of traffic.
expected that the new solar power plant in Nevada will be managed by Sierra Pacific Power Co. After the completion of the solar power plant will generate about 43.5 million kW / h of clean electricity per year. Today, Apple already has the largest U.S. data center that is partially powered by solar energy. Power, based in North Carolina, consumes 167 million kW / h, which is enough energy for 17,600 private homes.
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