We’ve seen Apple’s North Carolina data center in various states of undress, but never before have we seen its associated solar farm looking so complete. That sure is a lot of solar panels. We’re not all that surprised though, with the intense thirst for energy from the servers that it feeds. In fact, initial reports indicated that — although impressive — the solar farm would still only be supplying 60 percent of the sites requirements. No fear though, as the remaining 40 is said to come from other equally eco-friendly sources. We’d be happy with enough to keep our iPad permanently juiced.
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Visualized: Apple’s 20 megawatt solar farm originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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