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Construction begins on Reno iCloud facility

by Steven Sande (Mar 27th, 2013)

Apple's iCloud service is expanding rapidly, and the company is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure to support it. Recent stories have pointed to the massive photovoltaic array powering the Maiden, NC, data center, and last October Apple broke ground for a data center near ...

Apple plans to double capacity of NC fuel cells

by Steven Sande (Dec 5th, 2012)

The first phase of Apple's fuel cell project at the Maiden, NC data center began testing in October of 2012, and the company is already looking at doubling the capacity of the plant. The plant is fueled by filtered landfill gas (AKA "directed biogas"), a fuel that is considered a renewable ...

Apple breaks ground for new Oregon data center

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2012)

After spending the last few months putting together the paperwork and plans for its upcoming Oregon-based data center, Apple has finally broken ground on the project. The company will be transforming 160 acres of area near Prineville, Ore., into two big state-of-the-art data centers, and ...

Daily Update for October 19, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 19th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple's plan for Reno data center gets green light

by Mike Schramm (Aug 2nd, 2012)

Apple's gotten the thumbs-up for another data center, this one in the biggest little city in the world, Reno, Nevada. Unfortunately, the deal itself doesn't hold a lot of weight, but at least Apple's gotten another nod in the right direction. The Nevada Board of Economic Development put its ...

Daily Update for July 19, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jul 19th, 2012)

Apple building new, smaller data center in North Carolina

by Steven Sande (Jul 19th, 2012)

We all know about Apple's mega data center in Maiden, North Carolina. The center, with its solar farm and fuel cells, has been a popular topic of discussion here on TUAW since the groundbreaking years ago. Now the Hickory Daily Record is reporting that Apple's building a smaller "tactical" data ...

How Apple's North Carolina data center got built

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 13th, 2012)

This week GigaOM took an extensive look at North Carolina and its many data centers. The fourth and final installment in this series focuses on Apple's new data center in Maiden, North Carolina and covers some of the early negotiations between Catawba county officials and the Cupertino ...

Greenpeace boosts Apple's rating, but barely

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 12th, 2012)

Greenpeace recently released an environmental report on Apple and upgraded the company's score from an F to a D, says a report in Wired. Greenpeace pointed to Apple's commitment to use alternative power at its North Carolina and Oregon data centers as the reason for this small boost in score, ...

Road trip! Visiting Apple's North Carolina data center

by Steven Sande (Jul 9th, 2012)

Looking for an exciting geek adventure this summer? You may want to follow in the footsteps of GigaOM's Katie Fehrenbacher, who recently took a one-day road trip to visit the sites of some of the world's largest data centers. These facilities, all of which are located in a small area of North ...

Reno city council approves Apple tax break for data center

by Steven Sande (Jun 28th, 2012)

No big surprise here -- the Reno, NV city council has approved tax breaks for Apple's proposed data center and business / purchasing center in the city. The tax breaks are expected to produce a 79 percent reduction in Apple tax burden, but building the facilities should provide the northern ...

Apple looking to build data center in Reno

by Steven Sande (Jun 27th, 2012)

All of Apple's iCloud initiatives need data centers -- big ones -- and the company has announced plans to build a new facility near Sparks, Nevada, just a short toss of a poker chip east of Reno. That's not all Apple is planning to do in Northern Nevada. There are also plans to build a ...

North Carolina approves Apple's plans for 4.8-megawatt fuel cell facility

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2012)

Things are looking green around Apple's Maiden, North Carolina data center, and it's not just due to the fact that it's springtime. The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved (PDF) Apple's plans to construct and operate a 4.8-megawatt fuel cell facility at the data center, providing ...

Greenpeace activists protest Apple by blocking train tracks

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 4th, 2012)

Greenpeace activists tried to stop Apple's coal consumption at its source by blocking train tracks that Duke Energy uses to ship coal to Apple's Maiden, North Carolina data center. Activists targeted the Marshall Steam Station in Catawba county, according to a report in Charlotte's ...

Apple confirmed as Bloom Energy's customer

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 30th, 2012)

CNet confirmed today that Bloom Energy will be supplying fuel cells to Apple. This will go toward powering Apple's North Carolina data center. GigaOM originally reported last month that Bloom Energy would be Apple's supplier for the fuel-cell farm. There will be 4.8 megawatts of biogas fuel ...