Outside of Redmond, Washington, yes.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's Advanced Weapons Research and Development group is relatively nearby. Give or take 40 mi. Of course, I heard they spearheaded both Vista and ME soo...take it for what it's worth.
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Aerial Video of Apple's Finished NC Data Center, Already Plans for Expansion?
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Outside of Redmond, Washington, yes.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's Advanced Weapons Research and Development group is relatively nearby. Give or take 40 mi. Of course, I heard they spearheaded both Vista and ME soo...take it for what it's worth.
This my friend is where Apple takes out Facebook if they don't agree to the buyout.
Unprecedented demand. After all, we're talking about Apple here. The last quarter has proven to Apple that when it comes to their growth, sky's the limit.
Most likely not. The only way it would be "easier" is if they originally designed a way to support the loading of a second floor, also electrical, mechanical and plumbing too. I don't think it would be built on top.
Not quite.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=41
http://www.rti.org/page.cfm?objectid=CA3736FB-86CE-41EE-AFBA681035F4ADB3/
They can probably keep the place self-powered for a day, maybe two.... but they'd start loosing ability to keep it operating at full capacity if they can't get the outside juice turned back on inside that time. I'm sure they have their own substation so the wires coming in are bit more heavy duty than most neighborhoods.
While certainly alot less brown/red than the map of CA/NV , it isn't exactly zero in parts of NC either.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/conterminous/2008/maps/ceus/sc/charleston.pga.jpg
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/conterminous/2008/maps/)
Plus they can wrangling even more tax breaks out of the local community. Oooo look we're poor you gotta give us tax breaks or we can't put a data center in your community.
But yes.. if there is a internation trunk line going out of the south toward South Amer and/or Africa it would make sense to put one there. As long as stick with US placement it isn't just intra-country latency trying to negate.
I live about 20 minutes north of Charlotte and while hurricanes are certainly a rarity, they do occasionally make their way inland. Just think back to Hugo. One Hugo-sized storm would certainly cause problems, remember it just takes one disaster to cause a major problem.
Great quote from an awesome movie
"Contact" is one of my fav's, I'm surprised I missed that quote.
There, fixed it
1. Upper tier certified data centers have multiple fiber lines coming in ( preferably from two different vendors ). That way when some Bubba takes a backhoe to some driveway and cuts the cable (didn't find out what was buried nearby ), that the center is still online ( but at reduced capacity.)
Construction folks shear off gas lines , fiber , etc. more often than some rare, extreme scale, natural disaster will swing through town.
2. It is extremely unlikely that Apple was going to "light up" that whole datacenter at once. Half of it was probably scheduled to remain empty for at least a couple years. You don't build this sized centers and then immediately fill them to the gills with equipment. There are likely subsections you can secure from the others and allow contractos in to flush out while keeping the active section(s) locked down.
Phase 2 could easily be lighting up another subsection that is inside of the current shell.
I don't doubt it but the photo shows what may be a parking lot
In other developments many companies are looking to build "green" data centers in Iceland where they use geothermal power and the climate doesn't require the power resources needed in hot California.
In other developments many companies are looking to build "green" data centers in Iceland where they use geothermal power and the climate doesn't require the power resources needed in hot California.
Why? People dont have to DRIVE to the data center to get their itunes purchases...
Wont be more than maybe a hundred employees there at any given time.
Its notta walmart.
Yes they do have one in CA. So they have already been operating in a mode where probably had a large 'fail-over" lease with a large disaster recovery company. This second center allows them to do some/most of that in house.
The only problem with the two is that they aren't the same size. At some point the NC center will have more stuff carrying more workload than the CA center can handle in addition to its normal load. There is a much more major risk that the CA center will get knocked out over next 10 years (a faultline that runs nearby the center is overdue for its every 100-120 year quake. ) . At that point the NC center will have to soak up the load for it.
That is one reason the NC center is so large. Not because of some 'new' workload, but to handle the current stuff in a disaster recovery situation.
Similarly, if Apple opens a third site then this center would be fail over site for both CA and that new one.
Netapp builds...data centers?
Didnt see that on their parts list...what's one cost from netapp these days?
Not even a 100. Probably closer to 35-50. Perhaps more folks in two local elementary school classrooms.
The only time would rise in he 100 range was their was major equipment being remodeled/installed/ripped out in one of the subsections. So certainly more than were going to dairy farm that was on this plot before, but less than have been trotting through they during the peak construction phase.
What is not shown here , but was shown in earlier articles is that this is not too far off of a freeway. The plane is somewhat flying over freeway when taking these shots I think.
Hopefully they're expanding their iTunes movie list. They never have anything I want to watch...
One cautious tale, were businesses that ran in one of the World Trade Center towers, keeping their backups in the other tower.
Haha! Apple using its own xserve and osx server at it new datacenter. love to see that day come.
if only Apple cared about is server products as much as the iPad.