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<title>Apple datacenters now fully powered by renewable energy</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/21/company.still.working.toward.goal.of.complete.renewable.energy.use/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's datacenters are now fully supplied by renewable energy, the company has announced on its website.  The company is relying mostly on a mix of solar, wind, and geothermal energy.  At a facility in Maiden, North Carolina, it is also relying on fuel cells that convert biogas; the main source of energy though is a 100-acre solar farm, which became fully operational in December.  The company sa...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cisco sued over 'Tomorrow Starts Here' advertising campaign</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/11/east.carolina.university.claims.trademark.infringed.by.cisco/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/ciscodpc3000.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Cisco is being sued for trademark infringement over one of its marketing campaigns. East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina has announced the start of legal proceedings in a federal court, over the use of the slogan 'Tomorrow Starts Here' in a Cisco campaign shown on television, print publications, augmented reality, and also online....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple files to double capacity of fuel cell plant in NC</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/04/will.own.the.largest.non.power.company.fuel.cell.installation/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354663191_biogas-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[According to paperwork filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Apple intends to double the size of the Catawba County fuel cell project on the site of the Apple's data center in Maiden, NC. The move to 10 megawatts of power production will make it the largest installation of fuel cell technology not run by an electric utility. A total of fuel cells on the property are expected to be br...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple buys $3M in extra land for North Carolina datacenter</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/20/almost.220.acres.for.new.solar.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is planning to expand its North Carolina datacenter yet again, and has paid for $3 million in additional land near Conover, according to the Hickory Daily Record.  The purchase includes a base 218.885 acres plus another 0.251, all expected to support a new solar farm.  The information stems from records at the Catawba County Register of Deeds....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Photos show expansion of Apple's North Carolina datacenter</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/02/images.include.tactical.center.solar.farm.possible.biogas.site/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343934960_maidengas.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[New aerial photos obtained by Wired reveal some of Apple's recent progress on expanding its North Carolina datacenter.  Immediately next to the main facility -- which handles iCloud and iTunes traffic -- is Apple's so-called "tactical" datacenter, which provides some unknown support functions.  Across the road is a 100-acre solar farm, still under construction, which should eventually generate...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple's NC datacenter to use 100 percent renewable energy</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/17/facility.to.have.two.solar.arrays.fuel.cell.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's large-scale datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina will run entirely on renewable energy by the end of the year, the company has announced.  Currently Apple is in the middle of buying equipment from Bloom Energy and SunPower Corp. to build not one but two solar arrays in the Maiden area; previously, only one was known to be in development.  Once the equipment is in place, it should generate ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple, others take flak from Greenpeace on 'cloud' pollution</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are among companies Greenpeace is criticizing in a new report on sourcing clean power for datacenters.  The activist organization has rated a little over a dozen Internet-based companies on factors like their consideration of clean power when picking a location, their advocacy for the idea, and how transparent their clean power strategy is.  Apple and Amazon have each ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Apple job listing could be linked to Oregon data center</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/27/construction.already.under.way.on.oregon.site/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1110/icloud-datacenter.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is advertising a new job listing which could be connected to a new data center in Prineville, Oregon, Wired reports.  The company is hiring a data center construction project manager, who will nominally be based out of Cupertino, California, but have to travel to a project site.  "As Appleís new products and services expand and grow, so too does the need for more servers and server space to ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Expansion construction begins at Apple's Maiden datacenter</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/newmaidenbuild.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Renewed construction has begun at Apple's datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina, according to local reports.  While the main facility has been running for many months, primarily handling iCloud traffic, the Hickory Daily Record notes that part of the site's berm has been demolished for extra construction.  A company contracted by Apple, Holder Construction, has also obtained an erosion control perm...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SunPower wins contract to build solar panels for Apple</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/07/solar.farm.will.help.power.north.carolina.facility/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1110/apple-northcarolinadatacenter.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A San Jose company, SunPower, has won the contract to build solar panels for the company's North Carolina datacenter, a filing with the state's Utilities Commission reveals.  "Each of the photovoltaic installations will consist of multiple SunPower E20 435-watt photovoltaic modules on ground-mounted single axis tracking systems," the document reads.  The solar farm is being built in phases, and co...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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