{"id":752927,"date":"2013-05-23T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=98416"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:00:34","slug":"flyover-apples-massive-solar-array-for-the-idatacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/752927","title":{"rendered":"Flyover: Apple\u2019s Massive Solar Array for the iDataCenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-94155\" alt=\"apple-maiden-aerial-solar-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/apple-maiden-aerial-solar-4.jpg?resize=470%2C296\" width=\"470\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple&#8217;s<\/strong> data center in Maiden, North Carolina is the location of the nation&#8217;s largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array, and the array produces onsite renewable energy to the iDataCenter. This 100-acre, 20-megawatt (MW) facility has an annual production capacity of 42 million kWh of clean, low-carbon, renewable energy. The 1:20-minute video has no sound, but the images provide a dazzling view of the acres of photovoltaics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/20\/apple-plans-20mw-of-solar-power-for-idatacenter\/\">The solar facility<\/a> is part of Apple&#8217;s approach to environmental responsibility.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_FJ6_kEEKJg\" height=\"264\" width=\"470\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For additional video, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/26\/archives\/data_center_videos-index.html\">DCK video archive<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DataCenterVideos\">Data Center Videos <\/a>channel on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s data center in Maiden, North Carolina is the location of the nation&#8217;s largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array, and the array produces onsite renewable energy to the iDataCenter. This 100-acre, 20-megawatt (MW) facility has an annual production capacity of 42 million kWh of clean, low-carbon, renewable energy. The 1:20-minute video has no sound, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39RZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}