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Apple
on Monday said it would invest six billion Danish kroner (US$920 million, €810
million) in a data centre in Denmark, its second in the country to run entirely
on clean energy.
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Apple on Monday said it
would invest six billion Danish kroner (US$920 million, €810 million) in a data
centre in Denmark, its second in the country to run entirely on clean energy.
AFP
report continues:
Ground-breaking
at the plant in Aabenraa, which will employ between 50 and 100 people, will
start in the final quarter of 2017, with construction due to be completed in
early 2019.
The
facility will help to handle data from iMessages, answers from the
voice-activated assistant Siri and song downloads from iTunes, Apple's director
for the Nordic countries, Erik Stannow, said.
Supercomputers
at data centres generate large amounts of heat, which requires high levels of
electricity for cooling.
Easy
access to 100-percent renewable energy and the reliability of the Danish grid
motivated the decision, Apple said.
The
US electronics and online services giant invested a similar amount in a data
centre in Viborg, northern Denmark, in 2015.
The firm has contracted with an energy supplier to provide more than 30 megawatts of wind-generated electricity.
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