Apple Spending $2 Billion to Build Two New Data Centers in Europe

iCloud TV confirmed

 

I was just about to share those news. Hurraaayyy

http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/her-er-den-nye-apple-mark/5454660

Just short of 1 billion in Viborg Denmark.

 

God help them with Broadband speed / Infrastructure in Ireland. Mind; this might be the investment the country needs - especially in the West of Ireland to bring it at least into the 2010's (rather than the 00's which it currently resides in speed wise).

and Sadly I have no doubt Ireland will not feature for a long time despite the infrastructure for it being based here. We still don't have any TV shows on iTunes here and it took years before we got movies after USA & UK.

 

ROFL! What utter pigswill.

In other news, by brushing my teeth I personally support over a million jobs all over the petrochemical industry.

 

Yeah, Macrumors got it wrong. From Apples PR release:

 

Indeed - as posted by RTE News.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0223/682120-apple-investment-galway/

Still that's 300 jobs that will then have a knock on effect on jobs / job creation in the area to service those (such as shops / garages etc.)

 

The non sense doesn't stop there, what about this crap:

"Tackling climate change" by building large server farms.

"Leaving the world better than we found it" by selling 100's of millions of iPhones which will be discarded just after a few years.

"Green Industry growth", green and industry, there is a conflict right there.

"Our commitment to environmental responsibility is good for the planet" Yeah, right.

 

I don't really understand what your point is, apart from showing everyone how cynical you are.

 

Here to discover how haters could see something negative in this news

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Oh, how could have I missed that! The tree hungers!

Feel free to return to stone age, if you like. I'm sure several will follow your example.

What's about that non sense on a tech based forum?

 

Taking that example, the point is they are planned to be using 100% renewable energy.

Which, to the best of my scientific knowledge, is considerably better for the environment than using, say, 1% renewable energy and 99% fossil fuels.

 

Nice to see Apple investing money in Europe.

 

Yeah, 300 sounds a lot more realistic.

It was just amazing to see Apple credit these two not-yet-built datacentres with the future prospects of over half a million jobs in Europe. That would be getting carried away with the numbers, but it does seem to be a reporting error.

 

Where I am right now the temperature is -13F. Global warming my you know what.

 

NSA - we want access to your customers data.

Apple - we won't let you spy on our citizens

NSA - build a data centre in another country?

Apple - and you get access to that some how?

NSA - yes

 

While I'm in for some conspiracy theories, and yeah that is possible for the NSA, I still look at the thing here, >build 2 datacenters in europe<, for the obvious answer. It just makes sense to build the freaking datacenters there and not let all the europe traffic first travel to the USA and back again.

 

This is 2015. Local weather (even on the scale of half a continent) != climate.

 

Do you enjoy making up nonsense?

Apple doesn't say "we won't let you spy on our citizens". Apple says "we won't let you spy on our customers".

 

I doubt its that. Traveling back and forth is nothing these days. The pipes are already there. Its not like apple has to build their own. It could be that some of the world has lost faith in the security of US firms so building data centres in Europe is a smart move to build back customer trust.

 

How are they creating jobs

If you brush your teeth, you are not giving jobs to millions in the petrochemical industry.

The apple data centres will directly result in those App Development jobs in Europe.

Don't just criticize for the sake of it!

 

Nonsense to you.

I used the wording "our citizen's" because its ok for the US to spy on foreign services and citizen's. I wanted to paint the picture for you.

 

I have no problems with tree huggers. I have a problem with uninformed tree huggers like the one you answered to. Apple is trying to build data centres in the most environmentally friendly way possible. Among other things, this will drive down the cost of others who want to use similar technologies. Phones improve people's lives. And Apple will recycle every phone that you return to them.

I'm absolutely for doing everything in the most environment friendly way possible. It's just the uninformed tree huggers who can't imagine a middle way between destroying the planet and going back to the stone ages (where 7 billion people would starve rather quickly).

 

Tomorrow's ShameRumors News: Samsung is already building 3, lol.

 

You blatantly make up stuff without the slightest evidence. Actually, with lots of evidence pointing fully to Apple not cooperating with the NSA the slightest bit. And ******* the NSA, it is illegal for them to spy on people in the UK or elsewhere in Europe, based on UK and EU law, and if anyone of their employees leaves the USA, they should be incarcerated immediately.

At the same time you seem to not understand the concept of a "customer". Most of Apple's customers, you know the people who make Apple rich, are not in the USA. Given the choice between pissing of their customers who are their source of income, and pissing of the NSA, it is obvious to anyone that they will rather piss off the NSA. And they do so mightily already.

 

Being european I applaud that.