Renewable Energy Percentage Rankings
When we set out to find what data centers were using the most renewable energy we found that about 20 data centers are operating on 100% renewable energy. The Renewable Energy Output Rankings displays which of the 20 data centers using 100% renewable energy are using clean energy.
#1: Apple – Maiden, NC
100% Clean Energy – 500K ft2
Apple has spent somewhere in the range of $200 million in building two massive solar panel farms and a large fuel cell farm to power its 500,000 square foot Maiden data center. This makes Apple one of the largest privately-owned clean energy facilities in the U.S.
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#2: Facebook – Altoona, IA
100% Clean Energy – 476K ft2
Drawing from MidAmerican Energy nearby wind project, the Altoona, Iowa data center will be 100 percent powered by wind when it goes online in 2015. This will Facebook’s second data center — after its Lulea, Sweden location — to run on all renewable power
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#3: Microsoft – San Antonio, TX
100% Clean Energy – 470K ft2
Driving toward the goal for sourcing more clean energy as a company, Microsoft is increasingly purchasing renewable energy credits (REC). To help power it’s San Antonio data center, Microsoft has committed to a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with RES Americas to buy 100 percent of the 110MW electricity generated from the Keechi Wind Farm Project.
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#4: Apple – Prineville, OR
100% Clean Energy – 338K ft2
Apple is purchasing Renewable Energy Credits (REC) to contract wind energy for 100 % of the load of its Prineville facility. They has also taken over a hydroelectric project in central Oregon to help augment the facilities future power requirements.
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#5: Facebook – Lulea, Sweden
100% Clean Energy – 270K ft2
Combining their new “Rapid Deployment Data Center” (RDDC) design for the building, hardware infrastructure built to Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications and from hydroelectric power, generated from the nearby Lule River, Facebook’s Swedish Luleå facility will become the model for future green data center designs.
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#6: Google – Pryor, OK
100% Clean Energy – 260K ft2
To supply the Oklahoma data center with green energy, Google has signed multiple power purchase agreements (PPA). This includes 48MW from the Grand River Dam Authority’s, Canadian Hills Wind Project and 100.8 MW from NextEra Energy Resources’ Minco II Wind Energy Center.
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#7: Yahoo! – Lockport, NY
100% Clean Energy – 120K ft2
Yahoo!’s new data center was built using the revolutionary Yahoo! Compute Coop (:YCC) architecture. This energy-efficient data center design uses significantly less energy and water than conventional data centers. The Lockport data center will be powered using low-cost hydropower from the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant as well as an outside-air cooling system to keep machines at optimal temperatures.
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#8: Google – Council Bluffs, IA
100% Clean Energy – 115K ft2
With energy provided by their Wind VIII program, MidAmerican Energy Company has entered an agreement with Google to provide the Iowa data center with up to 407 MW of renewable wind energy. Combined and tracked with renewable energy certificates, it provides the facility with 100 percent green energy today and will be able to accommodate growth for additional phases in the future.
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#9: Apple – Newark, CA
100% Clean Energy – 107K ft2
In 1996 Apple purchased the 107,000 square-foot data center in Newark, CA to expand it’s capabilities. Located in East Bay of Silicon Valley, the facility uses 100 per cent renewable engery, primarily due to wind-produced electricity purchased wholesale from California’s Direct Access power program.
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#10: Apple – Reno, NV
100% Clean Energy – 109K ft2
With a 21,000 square-foot test facility built and almost 88,000 square-feet under construction, the Reno facility will be powered by wind power, solar panels and geothermal energy.
