Apple Powering Nevada Datacenter With Solar Farm 104
Nerval's Lobster writes "Apple's Nevada data center has been in the works for quite some time: a 2,200-acre plot outside of Reno will host a 90,000-square-foot datacenter that, in turn, will support the tech giant's cloud services. Apple will reportedly spend $1 billion over the next decade on the facilities, in return for significant tax abatements at the city, county and state levels. It will also fund and build a 137-acre solar farm, managed in conjunction with NV Energy, to power the datacenter (it will generate approximately 43.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity). The Reno datacenter will be the third Apple cloud facility in the U.S. that is powered largely or entirely by solar power. Sixty percent of the power for Apple's North Carolina datacenter comes from an existing solar-power farm near the facility; an Apple datacenter in Oregon uses solar power for part of its power load, but also uses power from wind and hydroelectric sources."
"43.5 million kilowatt hours" (Score:4, Insightful)
Over its lifetime? Per year? Per what?
Re:Cool! (Score:0, Insightful)
As a biologist, you should be able to guess what will happen when 200+ agres of prime wilderness are paved over with solar panes. I don't think the native species are designed to handle the transition to darkness.