The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina's daily newspaper, reported today that Apple has set into motion plans to build America's largest private fuel-cell energy plant outside Charlotte. The plant will supply energy for Apple's nearby data center that supports the firm's iCloud data storage system and the one and only Siri.
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The newspaper story provides as much information as Tobacco Road public records reveal. Unsurprisingly, Apple would not comment for the article. However, the details reveal what appear to be a very shrewd plan by Apple to leverage alternative energy, natural gas, needs of local utilities, and the company's formidable brain trust. The quiet, clean energy fuel cells thus created would be a wonderful, nonpolluting, albeit expensive industrial development.
The fuel cell facility will be built by California-based
Bloom Energy. They create fuel cell modules called, appropriately enough,
Bloom Boxes. That's an interesting name for a device that provides quiet, clean energy.
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