Apple announced plans for two new datacenters in Europe by 2015, one in Ireland and the second in Denmark. The first, Irish, not had much progress, since it has had problems with construction permits, so Apple hopes to have hope and best of luck with the Danish project, now confirmed to be constructed in Foulum, a small village in the Central Jutland peninsula.
He Minister of affairs foreign Danish, Kristian Jensen, said to the CPH Post that the project has a cost of $ 950 million of dollars (6.3 billion of Crowns Danish), what would represent the greater investment of capital overseas in the history of the country. Tim Cook, said in 2015 than the combined Irish and Danish projects would be also the largest investment of Apple in Europe to date.
Apple had already confirmed that the new management would use 100% renewable energyCenter, but Jensen said that the commitment of the company with the renewable energies in the area goes beyond this. As part of its plans, Apple has formed an ambitious agreement with the nearby University of Aarhus to fund research into biogas. The biogas is a gas produced by the decomposition of organic matter.
Under the terms of the agreement, Apple will provide financial support to the University in the research of biogas, and the usable form of energy can be extracted from agriculture, whether fertilizer or straw supplied by local farmers to this project. The amount of funds that Apple would provide the University was not revealed.
The data center will help provide and improve online services across Europe, including the iTunes, App Store, Apple Maps and iMessage, Siri store. This center should start operating by the end of next year.
