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All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy (9to5mac.com)
According to a recently-shared press release, Apple has finally hit its goal of running its own operations off 100% renewable energy. "All Apple facilities, from Apple Park to its data centers to worldwide fleet of Apple retail stores, are now solely powered by green energy," reports 9to5Mac. From the report: This figure does not include Apple's third-party suppliers or manufacturers, although the company is convincing many of those to switch to 100% renewable sources too. Apple's environment VP Lisa Jackson discussed the news in an interview with Fast Company. Jackson highlights how Apple has not only focused on reducing emissions but also contributed to the availability of green energy on the grid. Apple has gone from 16% renewable energy to 100% in eight years, with CO2 emissions falling by 58%. The company has built numerous wind and solar farms in cooperation with local institutions, as well as intense focus on environmental sustainability during development of its new buildings like Apple Park. Its data centers are flanked by fields of solar panels. Filling out the last 4% required Apple to find renewable energy sources in some of its more remote retail stores and offices. It has signed power purchase agreements in Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico and Turkey.
How does that work in the middle of a windless night? You may make the same amount of green power as used by your data centers but to say that you never fall back to âoedirtyâ grid power at any time is not a claim I can believe.
new mac pro will be powered by hamster on wheel and that what is taking so long.
The claim is impossible. There was a similar article about Google last week claiming they produce from renewables as much energy as they consume. THAT is a plausible claim. What Apple is trying to say is is an outright obvious lie easily disproven by numerous examples of "apple facilities" using whatever power grid is available - such as Apple stores operating in shopping malls.
The words coming out of Tim Cook's mouth are 100% renewable bullshit.
The majority of their energy use - the manufacturing of their products - is still dirty old coal.
But that's ok, because it's being burnt in China, not USA.
30% solar, 10% wind, and the rest was powered by smugness.
Wow, did you notice that the warrant was for something unrelated to, but uncovered during, Mueller's investigation.
Still no evidence of collusion with Russia, or are we to believe Mueller has evidence of collusion, but none of the Hillary donors working on the investigation has leaked it?
This seems to be an investigation into trump's personal attorney giving $130K to a stripper to keep quiet - you know, kinda like how Terry McCaullif gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Andrew McCabe's wife's campaign when she ran for office while McCabe was investigating HRC's private email server - pure coincidence, nothing more.
Ken
What the hell /.! After 30 comments maybe one would be novel or interesting.
This is an impressive feat to run the datacenters entirely off renewable energy.
Apple has enough money to power their factories with unicorn pelts if they chose to, but they instead rely on off shore factories that run on coal...
Ken
In the long run, you will be fossil fuel for the cockroach civilization that emerges in geologic time.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I am 100% certain that their cloud (think iCloud, Siri, iTunes store, App Store) and administrative infrastructure (think CRM, ERP, HR, etc) do not run on Apple Servers, and does not use Apple's OS.
I suspect you were the last person on the planet to know about this.
I doubt any long-time /. readers are surprised by this at all. Apple hasn't made a proper server since 2011, and doesn't sell or advertise macOS as a high-performance server OS (while they do still sell a "server" edition, it's more geared towards SOHO use than datacenter use).
Apple left the server space quite some time ago. They run iCloud off a combination of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, none of which run macOS. And this comes as a surprise to nobody at all who has paid a gram of attention over the last 8 years.
Yaz
I doubt it's zero, but the body of most iPhones, and even MacBooks and Mac computers is aluminum and glass. I am sure there are some plastic components, but the bulk of the body itself is not plastic.
As noted in the article this doesn't mean that they've cut their connection to fossil fuel power plants, only that overall they produce an equal amount of renewable energy through various contracts/facilities as they use. They still rely heavily on fossil fuels. I'll be a bit more impressed when their facilities have hefty battery packs and energy from the grid flows into the site only a few weeks out of the year.
No, I just think he's including Hoover Dam as a source.
IOW, Apple is lying through their teeth.
That's a Third Party Supplier.
Apple doesn't OWN Foxconn, dumbass.
Considering one has to throw out their phone or Mac after three years, or when something breaks and you can't replace the part, they're probably dumping all the broken systems into the furnace.
An endless cycle of buy, fail, buy.
Sorry, Hater; but it's really more like this:
Phone: MAYBE 3 years or so; but that's mostly because of "Ooh, shiny!", like with ALL Smartphones.
iPad: Closer to 5 or 6 years. Again, mostly because of feature creep. IPads seem to last forever!
Mac: Much closer to 10 years, on average. Unless you're a "Must have the new hotness" sort of person. My newest Mac (and daily driver) is a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. Shows no signs of wear out or failure yet...
"This figure does not include Apple's third-party suppliers or manufacturers".
That's like saying Facebook runs on renewables, except for its data centres.
Not the one in my mall. Nope. Not a single solar panel on the roof of that place, and the local utility is gas/coal fired.
I like how people always asset that someone else has "enough money to do XYZ".
Apple has enough money to power their factories with unicorn pelts if they chose to, but they instead rely on off shore factories that run on coal...
Here's something most people seem to be ignorant about, China has a near monopoly on rare earth elements and they use this to force manufacturing to their country. They won't export rare earth elements as anything but a finished product. If you want to make a LCD display then it will most likely have to be done in a factory in China, because getting these elements any other way is near impossible under current US federal laws.
Why is it like this? Because most of the world complies with international rules on the production of nuclear weapons. What does nuclear weapons have to do with LCD screens? Elements like thorium and uranium are abundant in the same places where rare earth elements are abundant. If people mine rare earth elements then they will produce thorium and uranium along with it. Since most nations comply with the rules restricting the production of thorium and uranium (either due to treaties or self imposed laws) the production of rare earth elements are confined to the nations that don't much care about producing thorium and uranium. China produces a lot of thorium and they just put it on huge piles until they figure out what to do with it. Given that thorium is not soluble in water, doesn't really blow away in the wind, or pose any real biological hazard there is nothing wrong with this. The uranium is used to fuel nuclear power reactors and make weapons.
Rare earth elements aren't that rare but we can't produce them in any meaningful quantity in the USA because the rules on digging up uranium and thorium make it real expensive. There are rules on how to handle uranium and thorium that are total nonsense, because just having an ore is a long way from making any weapons. If there was a market for this uranium and thorium in the USA, such as nuclear power reactors, then we'd see some rare earth elements being mined here too.
I don't like Apple making their products in China either. I found out why they do it. It's because the USA has stupid laws on the mining of thorium and uranium, and China takes advantage of this by not exporting the materials except in finished products. People can't just dig up the rare earth elements and put the other stuff back in the hole it came from, because just digging it up is considered "producing weapons grade material". Fix that stupid law, or create a market for the uranium and thorium in nuclear power, and we'll get our iPhones with "Made in USA" on the back.
China corners the markets on electronics because WE ALLOWED THEM TO DO SO with our own laws. Don't blame Apple, and don't blame China, this came from our own federal government.
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I suspect that maybe they produce globally as much energy as they consume, which is not exactly the same thing as being "green"...
Living in France, I can already tell you that there is no way their stores in France can be powered by anything else but nuclear plants !
I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro that's got to be near 10 years old now. I dropped it and broke the optical drive and latch. I dropped it again, breaking the replacement optical drive. The original battery died, then I replaced it, and the replacement died. It now sits on my desk because I got tired of buying batteries. No one makes a replacement as good as the original.
I bought a new MacBook Pro a few months ago, we'll see if I can avoid dropping this one and breaking something. The one thing that concerns me is the battery. The technology on batteries improved considerably, if the battery lasts ten years then I'll keep carrying that laptop. Even then with USB-C power bricks being a thing now, and Apple dropping MagSafe for USB-C, I can expect to be able to find power for this new MacBook Pro in 10 years. I got a USB-C power cord with a magnetic breakaway connector so I could get my MagSafe back.
My phones have lasted about 5 years, I'd guess, except my last one. That one went through the wash from leaving it in my jeans pocket. Previous ones were worn out or so old my provider PAID ME to upgrade.
I don't have an iPad but my iPods lasted a very long time. Like most of my electronics they are used until I break them. My last iPod Touch was about 6 years old went it met a concrete floor from a 5 foot drop, putting cracks in the screen. It still works but the touch screen is difficult to read and doesn't track finger movements well. I still use it once in a while.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Exactly!
BTW, how do you like that aftermarket Mag-Safe thingy?
some less fantasy filled context here:
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
If they hooked a generator up to Steve Jobs' corpse they could power half of California.
Do you have ESP?
Unless Apple's sites are 100% off the grid this is not achievable, PERIOD. They would have to put in their own separate transmission grid and renewable energy infrastructure which has not happened, so this is a bazillion percent false.
Or they don't know how electricity works... not sure which it is.
Mmmm, tasty tasty nothingburger.
A no-knock search warrant on the personal lawyer of a sitting president is as far from a nothingburger as you can get. This is now officially a Very Big Deal.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
This seems to be an investigation into trump's personal attorney giving $130K to a stripper to keep quiet - you know, kinda like how Terry McCaullif gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Andrew McCabe's wife's campaign when she ran for office while McCabe was investigating HRC's private email server - pure coincidence, nothing more.
Hello Russian troll, we aren't listening anymore. These "what about ... !!!" posts are so tired and pointless. I know, your point is to goad people into some pointless discussion where you throw trigger words at them, with the end goal of upsetting people and sowing division. It's not working anymore. Come up with some new tactics.
Unless the answer is zero, this is just feel-good nonsense.
Reality takes place in the gray area between your black and white. Feel free to join us when you are ready.
The MagSafe work-alike I have came from Griffin Technology and works about as well as the old MagSafe connector from Apple. Like MagSafe it comes loose a bit too easily, which can be annoying. Unlike MagSafe it's orientation dependent, the magnetic connection can't be flipped over if there's some twisting tension that can make the connection come loose. This is easily addressed though by flipping over the USB-C connector. It's a "dumb" cable and so is limited to 60 watts like any passive USB-C cable, but that's not a big deal either. If I had a laptop that needed more power then this might be an issue. Sounds like 100 watt capable cables like it will be offered soon, by both Griffin and competitors. It provides no data connection, which I consider a good thing now that I hear of power supplies that try to grab data from laptops, it passes power only and so offers protection from such things.
In short, I'd recommend it.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.