Apple unveils 18-megawatt solar farm to power cloud data center

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Top 11 metro areas for tech jobs Top 10 colleges for tech CEOs Network World Daily News PM July 05, 2013 Share this email Apple unveils 18-megawatt solar farm to power cloud data center Apple's proposed 18-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm will power servers running in its Northern Nevada data center READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Top 11 metro areas for tech jobs 2. Top 10 colleges for tech CEOs 3. In first, NASA astronaut in space controls robot on Earth 4. Malware steals Litecoins, Bitcoin's younger sibling 5. Most Americans don't want wearable tech like iWatch, Google Glass 6. 6 highest/lowest paid IT jobs 7. Gartner downgrades 2013 global IT spending forecast on currency shifts 8. Researchers mimic board game to bolster computer security 9. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. 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