As part of its commitment to create a healthier environment, Apple announced yesterday that the company is now running on 100 percent clean and renewable energy.
This accomplishment spreads through all of the company’s global spaces, including offices, data centers, retail stores and facilities located in 43 countries that includes UK, China and India. “We’re committed to leaving the world better than we found it. After years of hard work we’re proud to have reached this significant milestone,” said company’s CEO Tim Cook in a press release.
Since much of the company’s products are made by suppliers, Apple has encouraged them to adopt renewable energy to power their facilities. As a result, 23 of the company’s suppliers are now dedicated to work on 100% clean energy. Apple too currently has 25 operational renewable energy products across the world along with 15 more projects in construction.
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Apple and its partners are manufacturing new renewable energy projects across the world, which will enhance the energy options for local communities, states and even entire countries. Apple is creating numerous projects that will represent diverse range of energy sources, which include solar arrays and wind farms along with the emerging technologies such as biogas fuel cells, micro-hydro generation systems and energy storage technologies. Renewable energy is collected from resources such as wind, sunlight or tides.
The world’s second biggest smartphone manufacturer announced back in 2014 that all of its data centers are powered by renewable energy. According to Independent, living up to its commitment, Apple’s data center, which is under construction in Denmark will run on clean energy.
The announcement comes few days after tech giant Google said that the company is buying more renewable energy than it is consuming, The Verge reports. Walmart, Apple and Alphabet are some of the biggest companies in the US buying renewable energy.
“We’re going to keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the materials in our products, the way we recycle them, our facilities and our work with suppliers to establish new creative and forward-looking sources of renewable energy because we know the future depends on it,” said Cook.