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<title>Apple datacenters now fully powered by renewable energy</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/13/03/21/company.still.working.toward.goal.of.complete.renewable.energy.use/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's datacenters are now fully supplied by renewable energy, the company has &lt;A href="http://www.apple.com/environment/renewable-energy/"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; on its website.  The company is relying mostly on a mix of solar, wind, and geothermal energy.  At a facility in Maiden, North Carolina, it is also relying on fuel cells that convert biogas; the main source ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cisco sued over 'Tomorrow Starts Here' advertising campaign</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/13/01/11/east.carolina.university.claims.trademark.infringed.by.cisco/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/ciscodpc3000.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Cisco is being sued for trademark infringement over one of its marketing campaigns. &lt;a href="http://macnn.com/rd/277103==http://www.ecu.edu/" rel='nofollow'&gt;East Carolina University&lt;/a&gt; in Greenville, North Carolina has announced the start of legal proceedings in a federal court, over the use of the slogan 'Tomorrow Starts Here' in a Cisco &lt;a href=&quot...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple files to double capacity of fuel cell plant in NC</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/12/04/will.own.the.largest.non.power.company.fuel.cell.installation/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354663191_biogas-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[According to paperwork filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Apple intends to double the size of the Catawba County fuel cell project on the site of the Apple's data center in Maiden, NC. The move to 10 megawatts of power production will make it the largest installation of fuel cell technology not run by an electric utility. A total of fuel cells on the property are expected to be br...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple buys $3M in extra land for North Carolina datacenter</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/09/20/almost.220.acres.for.new.solar.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is planning to expand its North Carolina datacenter yet again, and has paid for $3 million in additional land near Conover, according to the &lt;em&gt;Hickory Daily Record&lt;/em&gt;.  The purchase includes a base 218.885 acres plus another 0.251, all expected to support a new solar farm.  The information &lt;a href="http://macnn.com/rd/268553==http://www2.hickoryrec...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Photos show expansion of Apple's North Carolina datacenter</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343934960_maidengas.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[New aerial photos obtained by &lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt; reveal some of Apple's recent progress on expanding its North Carolina datacenter.  Immediately next to the main facility -- which handles iCloud and iTunes traffic -- is Apple's so-called "tactical" datacenter, which provides some unknown support functions.  Across the road is a 100-acre solar farm, still under con...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple's NC datacenter to use 100 percent renewable energy</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/05/17/facility.to.have.two.solar.arrays.fuel.cell.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/20/array.among.largest.in.us.apple.claims/"&gt;large-scale datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina&lt;/a&gt; will run entirely on renewable energy by the end of the year, the company has announced.  Currently Apple is in the middle of buying equipment from Bloom Energy and SunPower Corp. to build not one but two ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple, others take flak from Greenpeace on 'cloud' pollution</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/04/17/google.facebook.named.among.better.firms/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Apple job listing could be linked to Oregon data center</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Expansion construction begins at Apple's Maiden datacenter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SunPower wins contract to build solar panels for Apple</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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