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If true, I wonder how they'll double the space. Whether they'll just add more floors or expand horizontally. From the picture, they look like they have plenty of room to expand horizontally. And I'm sure it'll be very hard to add more floors with causing an interruption of service.

From the way I read it, it's not a matter of doubling the facility, but doubling the capacity. Apple would be very foolish to locate all it's cloud-based eggs in one data center.
 
remember... a vast majority of people don't feel that way. Apple is selling to them. Anyone who relishes the concept of 'root' is not their marketing sweetspot. There are probably a 1,000 people for every person who knows how to partition a drive. Apple is selling to those people.
Very well said.

I selectively use the cloud for some things, and yet still have it all backed up to my own server. It's win, win that way.
 
From the way I read it, it's not a matter of doubling the facility, but doubling the capacity. Apple would be very foolish to locate all it's cloud-based eggs in one data center.

Excellent thought.

For fault tolerant issues (among others) - it would seem to make much more sense for Apple to create a new data center of the same size in another location (since they have one in California, one coming online in North Carolina). The midwest or southwest would seem to be more appropriate than putting more eggs in the North Carolina basket.
 
I'm in the "show me the goods" camp on this 500K sq-ft money pit. I'll believe the Profits when I see em............... which won't be for quite some time. JMO as a concerned investor.

cheers to the longs
JohnG
 
Excellent thought.

For fault tolerant issues (among others) - it would seem to make much more sense for Apple to create a new data center of the same size in another location (since they have one in California, one coming online in North Carolina). The midwest or southwest would seem to be more appropriate than putting more eggs in the North Carolina basket.

They can put one right next to my house. Maybe they can buy me out for 1.7 mil.
 
i just wanna know what the hell is apple planning with this huge data center?

Maybe this isnt cloud sharing but maybe something complety different.. Knowing apple they might just surprise us.
 
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Apple is buying Netlist to take advantage of their Hypercloud memory chip architecture, their Netvault proprietary capacitor for backing up data for ten years, and their Planar X technology.

Couple that with the fact that Netlist is suing Google for reverse engineering their patent protected IP and is asking a judge to shut down their servers. Netlist is a $75 million dollar company.

Also, this technology is energy efficient and vastly reduces the cost of operating data centers. It's Apple vs. Google and Apple won't lose.

Look up Netlist.com and ticker symbol NLST. This is going to get bought up soon.
 
Time machine

Anybody ever think it might be used for Time machine?

People aren't comfortable enough to have all their data stored somewhere else but having a backup of your data in another location (which many companies do anyway incase of a fire) is a completely different story.
 
The Cloud

To me the cloud = fees and someone else holding my data. It has it's benefits, but I will use it very sparingly as I like to be control of my own data.
 
For all their supposed care for the environment -- making a big deal out of planting a few hundred square feet of grass on their new Chicago store roof and such -- here they are cutting down hundreds of thousands of square feet of pristine, mature woodlands, plastering their ugly concrete block into the beautiful mountains. How loudly can you say "hypocrites"?
 
For all their supposed care for the environment -- making a big deal out of planting a few hundred square feet of grass on their new Chicago store roof and such -- here they are cutting down hundreds of thousands of square feet of pristine, mature woodlands, plastering their ugly concrete block into the beautiful mountains. How loudly can you say "hypocrites"?

You apparently own a computer. So...it's also your fault.
 
Doubling, or increasing, the size/capacity seems like putting all your eggs in one basket. With weather “events” increasing in frequency and severity, what happens if this facility gets knocked off-line? Earthquake, tornado, hurricane, floods, or mudslides can reduce essential services like communications, electricity, etc.

Maiden, NC, being NW of Charlotte and well inland, somewhat lessens the risk from hurricane wind damage, but not from rain. Will Apple keep open the smaller California facility, which is at risk from earthquakes?

Whatever service Apple is planning, 99+% up-time will be expected. Hopefully, Apple has carefully conducted a thorough risk assessment for Maiden’s weather, and reliability of area communications and power grid.
 
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