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Apple Powering Nevada Datacenter With Solar Farm
Nerval's Lobster writes "Apple's Nevada data center has been in the works for quite some time: a 2,200-acre plot outside of Reno will host a 90,000-square-foot datacenter that, in turn, will support the tech giant's cloud services. Apple will reportedly spend $1 billion over the next decade on the facilities, in return for significant tax abatements at the city, county and state levels. It will also fund and build a 137-acre solar farm, managed in conjunction with NV Energy, to power the datacenter (it will generate approximately 43.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity). The Reno datacenter will be the third Apple cloud facility in the U.S. that is powered largely or entirely by solar power. Sixty percent of the power for Apple's North Carolina datacenter comes from an existing solar-power farm near the facility; an Apple datacenter in Oregon uses solar power for part of its power load, but also uses power from wind and hydroelectric sources."
Too bad it will have to shutdown at night when the sun goes down.
Too bad it will have to shutdown at night when the sun goes down.
Absolutely! You are sooo right!
The engineers who designed it never thought to get feedback on their designs from 4 digit Slashdot users. And we all know that Slashdot users are the most intelligent - most knowledgeable people on Earth!
Thank you for your input! We are going to halt the project with the reason that a Slashdot user - a 4 digit user no less - found a problem that none of us EVER thought if!
I am constantly astounded by the brilliance and intellect of the Slashdot crowd. That's why I'm an AC - I'm just toooo stupid to be a registered account holder!