Apple has filed for a patent for a combined touch screen/solar panel that could be used to allow solar charging of its iPhones and iPods, U.S. documents show.
A patent application from Apple published Wednesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office describes solar-paneled technology designed for devices...
Green data centers have become all the rage among the big tech companies like Apple and Facebook. In fact, the New York Times is running a series this past week detailing data center operations.
Google has now made a significant statement by announcing this week that it has entered into a wind energy...
Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina, data center has been making headlines in the renewable energy world for its commitment to running off of clean energy.
Two solar panel installations–each 100-acre arrays–will produce 84 million kilowatt-hours of energy for the data center each year.
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Companies like Google, Apple and Facebook often capture headlines with their clean energy initiatives, but over the last year, Walmart has become an installed solar capacity leader. The company completed its 100th solar installation in the U.S. with dozens more planned in the near future.
Now Walmart...
eBay Inc. is the latest tech company to jump into the green data center trend. Along with Apple, Google and Facebook, eBay plans to use renewable energy sources to power a data center at an undisclosed location, presumably in the United States.
eBay will utilize 30 Bloom Energy servers, an innovative...
Forbes recently featured a piece detailing the major American companies that are investing heavily in clean energy technologies–and why the rest of the country is still so hesitant about renewable energy.
Apple, Google, Warren Buffet’s Berkshire-Hathaway subsidy MidAmerican Energy Holdings...
Tech company Apple is releasing more information about its Maiden, N.C., “green” data center, including the most recent statement from the company that the facility will be 100 percent powered by renewable energy by the year’s end.
Previous reports from the company only pegged the...
Apple will soon install a 20-megawatt solar power facility to offset the energy used by its enormous data center, located in Maiden, North Carolina. When completed, this solar array will be the largest supporting data center operations. The nearest competition is located New Jersey and owned by McGraw-Hill.
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Facebook will soon join Google in its support of solar energy by installing a large solar array on the roof of its Menlo Park, CA headquarters.
The Facebook system will take advantage of new solar technology for both electricity, heat and hot water generation. The system will provide hot water...
We’re used to looking to Apple to show us the next trend in technology that will change how we work and play. So it’s no surprise to see that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has released information on 20 new patents for cutting-edge solar technology, issued to the tech company just recently.
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