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Apple: 75% of Our World Wide Power Needs Now Come From Renewable Power Sources

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-keeps-on-going dept.

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.'"

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  1. Point of fact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oil IS renewable, but takes a long time. Solar power is not renewable. Once the sun has spent its fuel there can be no more.

    1. Re:Point of fact by imikem · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hopefully you're trying to be funny, and failing. All energy in this solar system except the, relatively speaking, small amounts that derive from sources such as nuclear fission of heavy elements in planetary cores, comes from the sun. If one decides that solar energy is not "renewable" based on the stellar lifetime, then fossil fuel cannot be regarded as "renewable" either, as it is stored solar energy.

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      Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est.
  2. Re:Does that include their manufacturing plants? by JayWilmont · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't blame Apple for the submitter's terrible headline. What Apple actually claims is on their website, and they have a clear breakdown of what they view their footprint to be is here:
    http://www.apple.com/environment/our-footprint/

    (Broken down b/c nobody actually RTFA)
    61% Manufacturing
    5% Transportation
    30% Product Use
    2% Recycling
    2% Facilities

  3. Re:Does that include their manufacturing plants? by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Informative

    The slave labour allegations are bullshit. Ref: The lies of Mike Daisey.

    Of course ANY company subcontracting manufacture to China and various other Asian countries is in danger of the subcontracting companies using child labour or sweatshops. And the majority of consumer electronics are manufactured there.

    However Apple does more than any of the other companies to ensure this doesn't happen with the companies that they subcontract to.

    The continued repeating of these allegations as if Apple were choosing to use child labour is the lowest form of filthy lie, from the dregs of the slashdot membership. To use a serious issue like child labour in order to further their shilling for Android or OSS is the lowest of the low.

  4. Re:So much hatred by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdotters have been infected for about 6 years now with some weird vocal Google lifestyle. As soon as the iPhone came out, Apple was put up on high like the underdog had finally won. Slashdotters rejoiced that Apple was finally ahead of Microsoft in a big way. David had beat Goliath.
    A year later when the first Android phone came out, it caused a great schism.
    I think it's really sad that people from both sides of the issue couldn't be more objective.
    But ultimately, I think that this has been a clash of culture that until now has been reasonably aligned...

    Open source is Freedom of software, not necessarily free software. This has been beat into the first generation of Slashdotters. However, Google has come in and consistently pushed their own solutions to be "Free with an asterix" Google dependency. Many people find google's commitment to free software noble, but they are slowly tying themselves to Google's interests. There is a great distinction between GNU and Google for instance on the way software is produced.
    People who find themselves immersed in google's technologies start to have their own self protection response when Google's interests are challenged.
    "How can Google be bad? They give me so much. I can't imagine doing my daily work without Google."

    This is NOT the same as the traditional Open source culture. Open source culture teaches you to be self reliant, independent and if you don't like the way code behaves change it. Giveback to society, but don't wait for society to fix your problems. Does google give you the ability to do this for ANY of their products and services?

    Enter Apple. Apple is a for profit commercial company. You pay up front for what you want. You vote with your dollars. There's no sleaze, no slime. The restrictions are clear, the capabilities are clear. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Yet they are also an open source contributor and have long been one of the center points for FreeBSD development. ( Consider the irony that Apple's Webkit is now the basis for almost all web browsers )
    They are NOT the doting father... they are not the place to go to for freeloading. They are quite clear of what they do and don't do. If you want something, look around a vendor may have a solution that fits what you want, or write your own software and give back to the community.
    Not the same model as open source, but I argue, a compatible one that is in the best interest of consumer freedom.

    The Google crowd doesn't like this. They'd rather wait for what "entitled" freebie they should get, and they get annoyed that Apple never gives it to them.
    So when Android came out, and Apple "disagreed" with how it was designed ( I say this simply to try and avoid a rant of who is right and wrong here... go with me on this) , suddenly Apple is the ultimate bad guy. To the Google crowd, Apple is threatening to take away your lifestyle. Only it's not your lifestyle. It's not what Slashdot was founded on. It's GOOGLE's Life style.