Apple settles on site for North Carolina data center
Well, the fat lady has finally sung woman of generous girth has finally vocalized lyrically—the mothership has picked a location for its East Coast server farm. I guess this means we should be speculating where their mid-continent, West Cost and worldwide centers might end up.
Data Center Knowledge reports that Apple has finalized the site for its $1 billion in North Carolina. Although Catawba County has been considered the inside favorite, the specific location wasn’t known until now—the town of Maiden along US Route 321.
Thereupon, it’s said that a press conference has been scheduled for Monday, July 6 to announce the deal, which will see at least 50 high-paying jobs to the depressed rural area, where the unemployment rate was 15.5 percent in May.
Coming to a neighborhood near you?
Further, although the rest of us had speculated as much, Data Center Knowledge adds that Apple’s East Coast infrastructure hub will support its iTune music store and iPhone app store. Another interesting tidbit is the mention of a document filed with the state indicates the data center will “take advantage of 3 hour time change on the East Coast to facilitate communications between European operations/sales and California for data transmission.”
This last tidbit could be construed to indicate a series of regional world data centers that will share and spread the load for Apple’s industry-defining music, video and application download stores. Then again, how often can we expect Cupertino to splash out $1 billion for a data center?
That’s a very, very interesting question…
What’s your take?
See also:
— Apple confirms North Carolina Plans
— NC governor inks tax law, says Apple data center coming
— Apple considering huge North Carolina server farm
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July 1st, 2009
I am curious to see what advances in “green” technology Apple will deploy at this facility. With competing news from Yahoo and their *very* green facility on the east coast. I wonder if this will become a nice little, “I can be greener than you!!” competition!
I guess we will find out in the coming months.
It looks as though the data center construction market is picking back up. I wonder if Dupont and DRT are going to resume construction in Virgina and California…