(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Apple, Inc., has devoted lots of effort to environment concerns. The average energy consumption of their devices has declined 70% from what it was in 2008. And this new campus, as Tim Cook says, runs on 100% renewable energy. Three-quarters of that comes from rooftop solar plus biogas fuel cells.
Apple Park has no conventional air conditioning (since Steve Jobs despised that). Tubes of water in the concrete floor connected to sensors will keep the temperature between 68 and 77 degrees.
“We don’t want you to feel like you’re in a casino. We want you to know what time of day it is, what temperature it is outside. Is the wind really blowing? That was Steve’s original intention, to sort of blur that line between the inside and outside," says a VP.
There are 7,000 trees on the campus, two miles of walking/running paths, and a 100k-square-foot fitness center.
Apple Park is going to cost nearly $5 billion, a figure that shareholders are not excited about. But considering Apple's cash reserves of $215 billion, maybe they can afford it.
Here's the view from a drone a couple of months ago:
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