Apple is moving to shrink its carbon footprint, building the nation’s largest privately owned solar farm to run its data center.
NBC chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson reports.
These solar panels help power billions of messages, hundreds of millions of photos, and millions of FaceTime chats every day. All that activity is processed through data centers. Rows of telecommunications equipment that are blue ribbon energy, using up to 2% of all the power in the country. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s Vice President of Environmental Initiatives, gave NBC a first look inside the core of Apple systems.
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