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Apple has given itself ten years to achieve total carbon neutrality for its supply chain and products.

The giant has its work cut out for it but has no shortage of solutions.

Thus, the firm announced on Thursday in a press release that it was going to set up a wind farm in Denmark, near the town of Esbjerg, on the shores of the North Sea, relays BFMTV.

Apple will install two of the largest wind power machines in the world there.

Two hundred meters high

With these wind turbines, which will reach 200 meters in height, the objective is to supply its Danish data center in Viborg.

The building, which covers 45,000 square meters, is the hub of many Apple services in Europe.

It is used to store data in the cloud for Apple Music services, iMessage, but also the App Store, specifies BFMTV.

Ultimately, 62 gigawatt hours of electricity per year will be produced by this wind farm.

Consumption comparable to that of 20,000 households per year, says Apple.

Too large an amount for the data center, currently running on electricity from a solar park, which the American giant has built specially.

The excess production will therefore join the Danish electricity grid.

A record at 260 meters

If these two machines are among the largest specimens, the record is held by a wind turbine measuring 260 meters.

Made in France, but installed in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), it is capable of generating on its own 67 gigawatt hours per year, details the information channel.

Apple's two wind turbines should be in operation from the end of 2020. Other projects around renewable energies will see the light of day in Belgium, Switzerland or the Netherlands, according to Numerama.

It is likely that Apple will manage to make its iPhones neutral in terms of their impact on the climate, as it has promised, by 2030. What sets itself apart from its competitors.

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