Certainly an interesting prospect. It's interesting that they chose North Carolina in particular, although that likely has to do with the massive tax breaks. I wonder if the building of this server farm is simply to keep up with regular demand or if Apple has a special project up their sleeves in the near future that would require a lot of server space.
Haven't you heard? California is going bankrupt. Their "girlie-man" governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, had no back-bone to veto the democratic controlled legislature that passed bill after bill that placed uncontrolled spending on priorities like expensive health care for non-usa citizens, etc. The rich, which is where the government got it revenues, are pouring out of that state because of the taxation. The government proposed taxing the average joe and 5 of the 6 propositions just voted on, failed. The government spent and spent and now has to cut services to try and fix it's budget shortfall.
Apple does have a "special project up their sleeves", by preparing to move it's operations elsewhere so all those who get upset at AI for always writing in their articles and describe Apple, the company, as
the Cupertino-based company, will see a change of pace.
Who knows, maybe AI's description of Apple will become,
the Research Triangle Park company...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triangle_(North_Carolina)
