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Apple: 75% of Our World Wide Power Needs Now Come From Renewable Power Sources
skade88 writes "Apple now owns and runs enough renewable energy power plants that 75% of their world wide power needs come from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydro. From the Apple Blog Post: 'Our investments are paying off. We've already achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of our data centers, at our facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork, and Munich, and at our Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won't stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple.'"
the child slave labour you have china enforce whenever you release a new product, until your production demands are met? Let me know when you stop doing that shit.
Fuck Apple
Why so much Apple hate here?
Their actions, past and present.
Yes, they make the most of a capitalist system.
Well, you got it in one. So why are you asking?
I couldn't care less if Apple went bankrupt tomorrow.
So why are you commenting? I call bullshit.
I'm just asking, WHY SO MUCH HATRED?
Yes, and we saw that at the beginning of your comment.
This company actually invests in renewable energy - how many other fortune 200 companies are doing this?
Fortune 200? Hahahaha. HahaHAHAhHAHAHA. Anyway, here's a serious answer to your question. The HAHA is because Fortune 500 is completely arbitrary, and Fortune 200 is an arbitrary partitioning of that. Nice try, though.
It seems like this is just more of the same old attitude - "It's a money making entity! Kill it!"
Uh no. It's evil, kill it. Apple not only sees themselves as guardians of morality but they also see your devices as their devices and see it as their right to stifle dissent transmitted through them. They are in general deceptive scum of an even higher order than Microsoft, simply far less successful. My favorite example remains the B&W G3 Rev.1 UDMA data corruption failure, which Apple wanted you to spend money to solve — quite a bit, in fact, due to the Apple Tax. But holding iPhones wrong is fairly precious, as was Apple's initial reaction to reports of cracking cubes — they at first denied that it was even possible. The arrogance of selling 68k macs for a jillion dollars to pay for the R&D on the Powermacs, which ended up being a costly dead-end for many of their users. The hypocrisy of actions like this one. Closing functioning assembly plants in the US only to reopen others later, with a real cost to workers. None of this really causes it to differ from other Fortune 500 companies, but Apple is first and foremost about style and image. Complaining that people have personal reactions to a company which sells products on a personal basis is beyond irrational.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Now, now, apple fanboi, don't get your panties in a bunch. The real question is: Did apple concern themselves with child labour BEFORE it started to tarnish their shiny image?
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
There was no lie. Their power is from renewable.
I'll believe that when they stop selling "Apple" computers and start selling OSX for "Foxconn" computers. Until then, it's all a load of bullshit, since the work they've contracted isn't being done with renewable power.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Show me one method of shipping worldwide that uses 100% green energy. Just one. They are none.
Bicycle + kayak. Takes a while to get to Hawaii, but with a good sextant...
You've completely missed my point (and honestly, I don't know why you have such a bug up your butt about Dell...). My point is that there isn't a way to transport goods using renewables. I'm illustrating the absurdity of it. So any company that claims that 75% of their power needs are met by renewables is being criminally dishonest. Don't matter if they're Apple or Dell or HP or whoever else you want to say is worse than Apple.