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