Apple’s secret solar plant in Pinal County unveiled
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Apple Inc. has built a 300 acre solar power plant in Florence to make up for the electricity used in its Mesa data center, and Salt River Project finally released details of the secretive project Tuesday.
Apple wants its customers to know that when they ask the Siri app on their phones for directions, they aren’t contributing to global climate change. The company has a goal of generating enough clean energy from multiple facilities to compensate for the power its global factories and other operations draw from the power grid.
Apple said in 2015 when it announced its command center project in Mesa that it would run the facility with solar power, but until now, the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker hasn’t provided any details of how it would accomplish that.
