Apple's Massive North Carolina Data Center Ready By End of Year

[gehrbox]

They'd cost twice as much as everybody elses TVs,
require three Apple adapters to work properly,
and only show Steve approved content from iTunes.

And they would get their own tab at the top of MacRumors

 

[SmittS]

Its nice to see that Apple has an East Coast (US) facility. I'm not sure if Apple still has employees in Austin and Colorado (where they used to manufacturer Mac's in the US).

I'm still surprised over the choice to use Maiden, NC. This is due to what seems to be a fact of their not being any universities or otherwise large pool of high tech workers in this local.

By contrast, the Research Triangle Park (RTP), a 7,000 acre science park located outside Raleigh-Durham-Cary area is home to many high-tech companies including Cisco, Motorola, Ericson, Sony, IBM, etc.

Therefore, I would suggest that this may more of a "call center" where customer service will be taken care of. That is, until I learn more about this facility.

No. This is a massive data center. The biggest I've been in.

 

[Rocketman]

Dude, you are selling iPads far faster than you hoped, iPhone 4 sales are beyond expectations, and the halo effect on Macs is greater than anticipated.

Dude, you're going to need another server farm!

Rocketman

 

[FlyinggPenguin]

Way too big for a data center alone, especially when you look at the 13 dock doors. Why do they need these? Not a data center (only)?

Shh! You've found out their secret plan to take over the world! Quick, duck before you get iSniped!

 

[KnightWRX]

Ah okay, so that's how it works.

I even had to read "The Great Gatsby" for my CEGEP English courses, even though my whole education was in French. Something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy...

It's then that my friends asked me : "Why didn't you cheat on the English entrance exam to get into the lower level, easier courses instead of the advanced litterature ones ?". To which I replied "doh!".

 

[thirteen1031]

Montreal is one of the biggest tech capitals in North America.

And one of the loveliest! Ah, Montreal. Visited there for the first time last year and fell completely in love. Now I wanna go back. *sigh*

 

[snberk103]

NC seems like a hot (temperature wise) place to have a data center. Cooling is a major cost factor in data centers. Would have been interesting if Apple had picked Maine, Quebec or Iceland to house a datacenter, all have first class data connections and low average climate temperatures.

As others have pointed out, Maine doesn't have the connections. Quebec probably didn't offer the tax breaks - plus I'm guessing Quebec's wages are higher than NC.

And Iceland has those nasty volcanoes that put ash into the air, shake up the ground (can you imagine an entire data centre's HD's parking their heads simultaneously due to a tremor?? ).

I think the other reason Quebec didn't get the nod is because data crossing international borders is monitored (by Homeland Security) more easily than purely domestic traffic. In other words, putting the DC in QC would have allowed DHS and the RCMP and CSIS to listen to everything. Now it's only the 'ferriners' whose traffic will be monitored. Legally. Well, openly. OK, admitted to - at least. I think.