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In the video clip above, we present the data center in North Carolina where Apple has the servers that run part of the iCloud system launched on October 12. Steve Jobs presented this data center during WWDC 2011 and it seems that for him the company from Cupertino will build and a solar power plant. The project started by Apple costs approximately 1 billion dollars and is intended to provide the data center with the necessary energy to operate non-stop, but for now it is not known when the new center will be put into use.
Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vacant land it owns on Startown Road, opposite the data center, in preparation of building a solar farm. The plans are called "Project Dolphin Solar Farm A Expanded." Project Dolphin was the code name given to Apple's plans to build a $1-billion data center in Maiden.
It is interesting that Apple is trying to build autonomous factories from many points of view and such a solar plant will prove to be extremely useful in the future if Apple decides to expand the capacity of the data center.
