Apple datacenters take a bad turn

Apple was recently classified by Greenpeace among its most bad students, included in its report devoted to the pollution caused by the datacenters of the giant web companies.
The apple computing center situated in north Carolina at Maiden, where the "dirty" energy consumed is proportionally the most elevated comparing to Facebook, Yahoo and Google.

picture from: www.greenpeace.org

Worthy to be mentioned that during the last February and just before the publication of this report; Apple announced its willing to put up a huge farm of solar panels to reduce carbon consumption of Maiden. Today, according to Oregonlive, apple confirms that it signed a contract with the Oregon authorities to build a small center of 930 square meters at Prineville –compared to the 500 000 square meters of Maiden- Also, declared at the local newspaper The Oregonian that it intend to build a green center without giving further details concerning its purpose or function nor the part of renewable energy provided.


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