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The Low-Down on The Commercial Real Estate Market and the Raleigh Area

Jul 27, 2012 Comments Off

Commercial Real Estate in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill The Triangle region of North Carolina is widely considered one of the fastest growing and continuously thriving economies in the United States. Made up of the geographic triangle formed by Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, the Triangle also consists of a number of fast growing towns [...]

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Apple discloses more details on green data center plan

May 25, 2012 Comments Off

By the end of 2012, the company hopes to power its data center in Maiden, N.C., entirely from renewable energy sources. That amounts to 20 megawatts of electricity draw at full capacity. Apple’s on-site installations will include two solar arrays: the first, 100-acre 20-megawatt installation is being built on the same site as the data [...]

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Will Apple Beat Google to Tap North Carolina’s Pig Power?

Apr 11, 2012 Comments Off

Renewable methane gas produced by North Carolina’s massive hog farms has already attracted the attention of Google, and it looks like Apple could become the next tech giant to join the state’s hog waste “black gold” rush. Earlier this year, Apple revealed that it would build an enormous 5 megawatt fuel cell installation at its new [...]

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North Carolina company to build solar water heating system at turkey plant heating

Mar 28, 2012 Comments Off

This gigantic solar farm, wedged between a turkey processing plant and a landfill, is this nation’s Goliath when it comes to solar thermal technology. Taking up the span of a half-dozen football fields, it’s four times the size of the closest runner-up: a solar thermal plant that heats water for a prune-canning plant in Northern [...]

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