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On its quarterly conference call, Apple confirmed plans to invest $2 billion on data centers in Ireland and Denmark. These will be Apple’s largest data centers in the world and will be 100% powered by renewable energy.
The company notes that 100% of it U.S. operations and 87% of global operations are running on renewable energy.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Apple. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
P.A. Semi built High-performance, energy-efficient Power Architecture processors and system-on-chip designs. What became of it?
P.A. Semi brought High-performance, energy-efficient Power Architecture processors and system-on-chip designs to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Apple for US$278M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Apple today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
