Apple in Arizona Ping!
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Posted on 02/02/2015 1:11:25 PM PST by Swordmaker
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Apple can’t tap the power grid without feeling guilty about it.
Smells leftist to me.
why does greenpeace feel compelled to snuggle up to Apple??
Hope they have a big battery back-up. Hmmm...maybe a big emergency diesel too.
You mean they are not going to build in the leftest utopia of California? Maybe even Washington State?
“..Smells leftist to me.”
Apple has always been ultra leftist — working hard to feed a liberal customer base. Goes all the way back to its roots with its founders. Nothing new here.
Very odd, considering that solar farm is probably going to impact some rare desert lizard or some such.
Oh wait, greenpeace. The people that trampled all over the ancient Nazca Lines.
Never mind.
So the race is on between Apple and Google to see which is in charge of the NWO.
Hey, I’ll take my power from wherever I can get it. Coal, Nuke, Oil, Hydro, Solar.
I’m all for diversity. I can’t understand why all those lefties are so racist against black coal, and black gold.
And I’m the racist. Sheesh!
I would like to read more about what hey are building in Mesa. Instead we get blather about solar energy and some freaking idiot at Greenpeace quoted that “we have to do more.”
I would have loved to read that Apple had investigated all sources of power and decided highly efficient gas fired turbines were the best choice.
Other companies build their data centers where cheap abundant hydro power is located. This just shows that Apple’s earnings are so huge they can choose high-cost solar in an area where cooling water is scarce.
Their shareholders must enjoy biting the green lure.
We Must Save the Twelve Toed Sand Flea!!
Apple is doing energy independence at all of their installations and even making a profit doing it. They sell power back into the grid. Apple did it in North Carolina and they are planning to be completely independent at their new headquarters ring in Cupertino and sell power back. So far, as I understand it, they've made more than the cost of installations by the savings they've made when the cost of energy plus the income from energy sales are added together. They may be including the Federal and State Tax Credits into that, but I don't know whether that was included in their calculations of savings. They do anticipate continued future savings.
In 2012, Apple expended around $350 million for installing solar at the North Carolina Server Farm and other Apple installations around the country.
I would think this Arizona plant might be a tad more efficient than other installations they have in Oregon and Washington.
“Smells leftist to me.”
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Making money and creating American jobs smells “leftist” to you? Perhaps you should get a referral to a good otolaryngologist in your area to see what is wrong with your “smeller”.
Apple is making Mac Pros in Austin, Texas. . . and iMacs in California. They have built their giant server farms in South Carolina and Oregon. . . and has just announced a new one near Reno, Nevada. They also are leasing space for another in Santa Clara, CA. And they are leasing storage from Amazon and Google.
I am pretty sure that Apple made the announcement they were building a new facility in Mesa, Arizona, not that they were building it solar powered, and stressed that they were creating jobs. The reporter heard what he was interested in. . . eco garbage. I will see if I can find the original Apple release on this, not the spin put on it by this Greenpeace activist oriented article.
Don’t need turbomachinery for electricity in AZ.
Palo Verde nuke plant does just fine (and does have turbines, just not natural gas...).
They have a massive data center in North Carolina that is solar. This is not new for them: http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/08/inside-the-huge-solar-farm-that-powers-apples-icloud/375564/
No their shareholders (like me) like the stock performance...
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