A dollar chasing a dime.
Here Apple wants to save a dime by going with green energy. But how many millions of dollars have they wasted with these planning delays?
Apple makes a profit selling surplus energy into the grid from the power plants it owns and the solar power co-generation it has on every one of its plants. They aren't losing on it.
This is the only planning delay that may be related to "green" energy I know of. Most planning delays are pure NIMBY delays from people who are just anti-change in their towns/neighborhoods. These two people who have blocked this continually have just been more effective than most. Most communities have bent over backwards to attract Apple to their area because it brings investment and jobs. Apple often doubles or triples the tax base of an entire county when it builds there.
I've heard that Ireland is beautify green in the spring, but the electric from the socket comes out green?
Sounds kind of AC/DC?