Frito Lay Kern Plant, California

The world's largest Frito factory, Frito Lay's Kern Plant provides the Los Angeles area with potato chips, pretzels, and corn chips. The plant is suitably located in an industrial agriculture and oil producing area, outside Bakersfield, and produces 100% of its own electricity via assorted co-generation technologies, receiving a LEED Existing Building Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2012.