[matt04]

A video from the "Climate Desk" finds an activist from NC WARN whose stated goal is to shut down current and stop new coal plants has determined that using coal to power said Apple data center will cause "big, big problems."

To try to appease these activists, Apple is building a 100 acre solar array, to power a whopping 10% of their data center. Unfortunately, they can't find any residents of Maiden who are opposed to coal or cheap power which brigs jobs.

[Drill Thrawl]

But remember that electric cars are clean.

[The Electrician]

Even though Cupertino is building a solar farm down the road from the data center, that renewable source only accounts for 10 percent of its juice.

Translation: Apple may feel a need to placate the leftist fringe (which forms a substantial portion of their customer base), but they're not stupid.

[bray]

Since we are cooling as a climate we may want to produce more CO2.

Pray for America

[EyeGuy]

Coal? That uncool energy for the unenlightened, non-progressive and backward?

Man, that ain’t hip.

Man.

[Gator113]

Greenpeace estimates blah, blah, blah.....

Then take away their damn phones and let them wipe their butts with corncobs.

[Swordmaker]

This Article from GIZMODO is so full of ignorant and inaccurate FUD bile, it's hard to know where to start—PING!

The first paragraph about FoxConn's bad working conditions has been shot down in flames many times... in fact, independent auditors found it was better than others by far, and the claims of suicides were found to be based on flawed statistics, and in fact the rate was FAR BELOW the national average for the age group!

Now, they use Greenpeace as an unbiased source to condemn Apple's use of energy in North Carolina, and Gizmodo swallows it hook, line, and sinker?

Apple FUD Ping!

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Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

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[Eagle of Liberty]

Sooooo, the greenies must have just loved Steve Jobs and not so much Apple itself?

[EyeGuy]

“Built to support iCloud, Apple’s new billion-dollar data center in Maiden, North Carolina is another strike against the world’s most valuable company. In fact, the behemoth, which is one of the largest such facilities on the planet, is powered mostly by coal, through Duke Energy. Even though Cupertino is building a solar farm down the road from the data center, that renewable source only accounts for 10 percent of its juice.”

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Yo clueless Green Weenie:

- Give up ALL your cool tech toys or shut the F up.

- Using coal is not a “strike against them”.

- “Behemoth” is used to disparage. Big is not bad. What do you want them operating in small, scattered dirt floor third world shacks.

- “10% from solar” my ass. They will be VERY lucky to power 5% of the plant with the utter and consistent failure that is solar energy.

[FlyVet]

On top of this, they have an evil 40% gross profit margin, and use dollar-an-hour labor. It’s a good thing they’re not an oil company, or Maxine Waters and Dear Leader would take them over and socialize them.

[beethovenfan]

Good. Coal is a cheap source of energy. F the enviro-wackos.

[fluorescence]

Data centers need reliable electricity as much as they need cheap energy. That means producing it at the time it is required, not waiting around for mother nature to generously bestow some onto you.

Passively collecting energy hunter-gatherer style in the amount nature is gracious enough to bestow on you is not going to cut it for any kind of industrial scale application. There is a huge step backwards (both in effect and in the mindset needed to put up with the change) in going from controlling the environment and getting what you want out of it to depending on a mystical external force to supply your needs at its whim.

[sergeantdave]

I see that the little bed-wetting troll has his crappy site shut down.

I expect that from gutless obuma Nazi trolls at gizmodo. These pukes can’t even handle a simple barroom fight.

[antiRepublicrat]

Ignore it. Greenpeace has been taking cheap shots at Apple to get free publicity for years.