Following pressure from environmental activist groups, Apple is now powering all of its data centers through renewable energy sources, the Cupertino tech giant said Thursday in an updated report on its environmental policies.
"Our goal is to power every facility at Apple entirely with energy from renewable sources — solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal," Apple said on its website.
In addition to all of its data centers, Apple's corporate facilities in Austin, Texas; Elk Grove, Calif.; Cork, Ireland; and Munich, Germany are now powered entirely by renewable energy sources, as is the company's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, according to the report. For all of its corporate facilities worldwide, Apple has reached 75 percent renewable energy use, a 114 percent increase since 2010.
The update comes after Greenpeace last year gave Apple low marks for relying heavily on "dirty energy" to power its cloud. At the time, Greenpeace said Apple's huge, new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, as well as one planned for Oregon "are powered by utilities that rely mostly on coal power."
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