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Apple's North Carolina Data Center Appears on Google Satellite Imagery
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"Many Bothan spies died to bring us these images... of a fricken' huge Data Centre that you couldn't miss even if you were looking the other way at night time." Sheesh. 
.... on the plus side, one proton torpedo down one of those air conditioning vents and... kaboom!
.... on the plus side, one proton torpedo down one of those air conditioning vents and... kaboom!
-it is intriguing that Apple and Google may have collaborated to keep their data center away from prying eyes
-any aerial imagery gives rival companies an idea of the scale of Apple's data/cloud offerings. If you can see from the street how many stories it is, multiply by the roof area, and you can get a good ballpark area of how many servers can fit in there
-it's interesting that this information is finally released half a week before WWDC. Coincidence or intentional?
Finally two quotes i agree with:
Sad sidebar on this new datacenter, as large as it is, when Apple built it, they projected about 50 new full time jobs in it. so it is tons of servers literally,very few real living beings in there.
People are the new Borg collective in the Apple world?
Yes, i am sure Chinese and Russian hackers will try and work their way into Music and Video file servers in there.
"Many Bothan spies died to bring us these images... of a fricken' huge Data Centre that you couldn't miss even if you were looking the other way at night time." Sheesh.
.... on the plus side, one proton torpedo down one of those air conditioning vents and... kaboom!
Sad sidebar on this new datacenter, as large as it is, when Apple built it, they projected about 50 new full time jobs in it. so it is tons of servers literally,very few real living beings in there.
People are the new Borg collective in the Apple world?
Yes, i am sure Chinese and Russian hackers will try and work their way into Music and Video file servers in there.
This building is one heck of a place to ride out a zombie attack. Umbrella Corp, umm.. aka Apple, will have one heck of a big building to hide out in the Server labyrinth.
If this is true why can't we see the Lunar Rover on the moon from earth? (Or even from a satellite...)
I agree. You never know what if what is on the Mac-Rumors front news page is good. It's total pot luck. Pick a story and hope you get lucky.
And many days all the real gems are on the 2nd page.
Because the bible-reading satellites are in low earth orbit. We don't have stuff like that around the moon. If there was one, it could do it.
I think it's interesting and noteworthy, but that's really the end of it, and the conspiracy/veil of secrecy thing is somewhat overblown. Complete or under construction, we're not going to learn anything of much value from the top of a building, any more than we get standing on the sidewalk of 1 Infinite Loop or satellite shots over Foxconn.
With the possible exception that it seems like a good place to head when the zombie apocalypse comes and the country is overrun with the undead.
Unless of course the design of the iPad 3 is going to be a virtual scale model of the data center...
With the possible exception that it seems like a good place to head when the zombie apocalypse comes and the country is overrun with the undead.
Unless of course the design of the iPad 3 is going to be a virtual scale model of the data center...
Looks like a giant IKEA!
If you check out roof coverings all the suppliers have pictures like this to show how they cover entire buildings with their sprayed on membranes.
Since it's Apple they will never have any leaks
That is obvious...
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Because we never went to the moon and the whole thing was FAKED!!!
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Because we never went to the moon and the whole thing was FAKED!!!
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Wow, the Google satellite imagery of my house is about 8 years old. Apple could build a new DC here and nobody would know about it for decades.