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Staples Global HQ Goes Solar
Staples has quietly been adding solar across it locations without much fanfare. Today, they announced they have impressive 14 megawatts (MW) in total, including the 685 kilowatt (kW) system that just turned on at its global headquarters campus in Framingham, Massachusetts. This is Staples’ 37th solar array, ranking the company #7 among Fortune 500 companies in the US for renewable energy consumption, according to the Environmental Protection [...]
Facebook Slaps Massive Green Roof on New HQ
Facebook has the green light from Menlo Park’s city council to build a huge second campus that connects to its headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company says its new 433,555-square-foot building will blend into the landscape, thanks to an extensive green roof that covers most of the very long building. Designed by award-winning architect Frank Gehry, the goal for the white stucco [...]
Google Installs Green Roofs at HQ Expansion
Google is expanding its already massive headquarters by over a million square feet and one of the new design elements is a green roof. Working with Seattle-based design firm, NBBJ, the 42 acre expansion will be double the size of its 65-building headquarters in Mountain View, California. This is the company’s first foray into new construction. So far ”Googleplex” has been [...]
Take A Virtual Tour of Suntech’s Global HQ
Suntech is dedicated to expanding solar energy worldwide, and what better place to start than our very own global headquarters? Because 80% of the building’s power needs are met by solar, the building’s carbon footprint is reduced by 29000 tons of CO2. This is equivalent to saving 9180 tons of coal! How can solar power [...]
eBay’s New Data Center: 100% Powered by Bloom Fuel Cells
eBay announced it will power its flagship data center with renewable energy as its primary power source, the first company to do so. The company is building the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the US and although it will be tied to the grid, that’s only for backup. And it will run on biogas from landfills. Most renewable [...]
58% of Bloomberg HQ Powered by Solar
Bloomberg’s headquarters in New Jersey now has a 1.8 megawatt (MW) solar system, providing 58% of the electricity for the 100,000-square-foot building. The ground-mounted solar array covers eight acres and was built by SunPower Corp. (SPWR). Bloomberg is buying the power generated from the system at below retail rates, providing a long-term hedge against rising [...]
eBay Goes Solar in Utah
In the spring of 2010 eBay opened Topaz, the first wholly-owned data center in South Jordan, Utah (which was awarded LEED® Gold status by the US Green Building Council). Since then eBay has continued to invest in Utah and worked to demonstrate commitment to make their operations even more efficient and sustainable, with this latest rooftop [...]
Adobe Orders More Bloom Boxes @ HQ
Earlier this week Adobe announced that it had added another 400 kilowatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells to its current fleet of Bloom Boxes. I spoke with Mike Bangs, Adobe’s Director of Global Facilities, about the installation. The two 200-kilowatt units installed at the company’s San Francisco site are Bloom’s next-generation design and put out [...]
Will Apple’s New Spaceship Campus Have the Biggest Solar Array in U.S?
Apple unveiled its plans yesterday for its new striking headquarters campus in Cupertino, California. “I want to leave a signature campus that expresses the values of the company for generations,” Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson. The spectular spaceship design is a 175-acre circular structure, with a footprint larger than the Pentagon. Its four stories high with glass circular [...]