There is no such thing as a typical company and this a data center not an office park to my knowledge. Having said that a typical small office maybe 100 kW or

There is no such thing as a typical company and this a data center not an office park to my knowledge. Having said that a typical small office maybe 100 kW or so. Most medium sized office buildings we would be familiar with I would say are 500 kW or less. I would peg Walmart/Carrefour/Tesco/IKEA type store to be 200-400 kW or so at peak power. Typical house would average 1-2 kW. Interesting links from US Gov: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/ http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/ Apple is doing this site because its greener than coal and I doubt they want to run diesel or a turbine. Greenpeace and other environmental companies have been giving Apple grief and the solar farm is part of their response to that. Apparently they also have 5 MW of fuel cells in the farm (where FC is more efficient than coal power plants and by extension fewer co2 emissions for same power). Turbines can easily provide that power and can get up to 60% efficiency in converting natural gas to electricity in ideal circumstances but are also pretty big and loud and may require an actual operations team to run and might be hard to get one that small. Diesel can be more compact but tend to be very inefficient in converting fuel to electricity and you still have to ensure its getting fuel.