Apple Inc.'s upcoming spaceship-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., has been in the news ever since founder Steve Jobs even mentioned plans of the building.
To take the legacy of such planning and enhancing the hype a little more, CEO Tim Cook said at the Climate Week in New York City that the structure will probably be the "greenest building on earth".
"We're building a new headquarters that will, I think, be the greenest building on the planet. It'll be a center for innovation, and it's something clearly our employees want and we want," Cook said.
But Cook's speech was no exaggeration. The under-construction building will be a "net-zero-facility", which means it will produce its own energy to power its premises "using 700,000 square feet of solar panels, creating 8 megawatts of power", according to CBS Local.
Apple has always been committed towards environmental conservation. It has a dedicated microsite that explains its eco-friendly ways of developing and recycling products.
"For decades, we've been working to minimize the impact our company and our products have on the environment. It's an ongoing effort, and we want to keep you posted on what we're doing - from hosting worldwide recycling events to sourcing native and climate-change-variable trees for our new Apple Campus 2," the iPhone-maker's microsite explains.
Apple has been aggressively advertising its eco-friendly ways as well. It recently put up a print ad in newspapers around the world or Earth Day, with a tongue in cheek caption teasing rival Samsung.
Apple ad on back cover of this morning's Metro: 'There are some ideas we want every company to copy'. pic.twitter.com/RNbgBNtjHZ
— David McClelland (@DavidMcClelland) April 22, 2014
The iMac manufacturer has been working towards reducing its carbon footprint too trying to use greener materials and less packaging. In a powerful ad released earlier this year, CEO Cook explains the company's strife to a greener, better earth.
"To us, 'better' is a force of nature. Now, more than ever, we will work to leave the world better than we found it," Cook says in the ad.
Last month, the first shots of Apple's under-construction headquarters hit the web and they were being compared to the Stonehenge.
Take a look at the renderings of the headquarters here.
