Apple Planning New Server Farm in North Carolina

[budd6]

Apple Farm

For what it's worth-- 7-8 years ago i was in the Hickory, NC Circuit City looking at a new iBook, was talking to a salesman my age (over 60) and he said Apple had bought land in the Hickory area, and was just keeping it on hold.
My best guess would be the industrial park off state highway 321, from there you can get to I-85 or I-77 (N/S) or I-40 (E/W)

 

[funkboy]

Isn't North Carolina always in the path of a hurricane or tropical storm yearly? Is it the wisest choice for a server farm location?

Coastal North Carolina, yes. Leave the tidewater region and there's really not much to worry about, and even in that part of the state it's not too hard to be above the flood plain.

 

[funkboy]

But where is that shiny new server farm in Europe? Apple, go invest some of those 29 billion kazillion dollars you got there in your small jeans pockets and get a server farm here in Europe. It is needed, and is probably cheeper than over there in the US since here in Europe we actually got something called bandwidth

http://www.oanda.com/rtrates

That would be a pretty bad investment at the moment. AFAIK Apple Europe doesn't have that kind of cash lying around, and the dollar is back in the crapper big-time these days.

 

[Rocketman]

Sometimes you buy server capacity because you need server capacity. Wierd concept, eh?

God bless Apple.

Rocketman

 

[edesignuk]

Apple counts $1bn for mystery data center

Apple is prepping a new US data center that may cost as much as $1bn, which would nearly double what Google typically spends on the mega data centers backing its web-based applications and services.

Based on its price, the new server farm would dwarf the former WorldCom/MCI data center it bought in Newark, California back in 2006. Naturally, Apple must keep up with the growth of iTunes and the iPhone App Store and other online services, but a $1bn investment makes you wonder what else the famously-secretive company is up to.

Citing an anonymous official and a leaked memo, Associated Press reports that North Carolina lawmakers hope to lure Apple's data center into their east coast US state with a tax break worth $46m over the next decade.

The Register.

That's got to be a lot of computing power. Let's hope they do half as good of a job at actually building it as Google do.

 

[yellow]

I might be wrong, and haven't read through this whole thread, but didn't Google put in (or at least consider putting in) a big server farm in the NC area? Could they be tied together somehow?

Yes, and no.

 

[Aeolius]

http://www.wxii12.com/news/19574075/detail.html

"The North Carolina House has tentatively approved changing the state's corporate tax laws to make them more attractive to billion-dollar investments."

 

[DiamondMac]

The difference is one side of the fence doesn't espouse raising taxes while seeking cabinet positions and failing to fully pay their own taxes at the same time.

Ah, I see, so not paying your taxes is allowed when you want taxes reduced. Gotcha. I would go into a long rant about International Tax deductions being cut, etc....with Republicans in office but why even bother when so many know absolutely nothing about it.

 

[dmmcintyre3]

Well I can work at Apple while staying in NC if this is built.