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New Evidence of Apple's Plans for a Second Data Center Building at NC Site

Anyone else notice they look like two giant 30-pin iPod dock connectors?
 
Huh! I thought the building design looked familiar.....
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The old Mac Mini video adapter. :eek: :D
 
Well as an NC resident it is nice to have Apple here to boost the economy. If they are wanting to expand even better. NC has been hit hard the last decade with the loss of furniture and textile manufacturing as well as tobacco jobs. We are happy to have jobs coming to the state.
 
canyonblue737 said:
Talk, talk, talk, talk.

The overhead pictures of the new building are great but until it means something I don't care. Apple is industry leading in everything except the cloud. Wake me up when:

- All iOS do full backups to the cloud, everything, no computer needed.
- Your iTunes movies and music stream to your OS X or iOS device anywhere from the cloud.
- iOS gains a true filesystem, one set in the cloud.
- OS X Lion has connections directly to the cloud throughout.

When? How much longer do we wait, I pay $99 a year for MobileMe and it scratches the surface of what Google Android devices can do out of the box for free. When does Apple leapfrog them, when?
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Ok, I'll wake you up when something interesting came up. You can go back to sleep now.
 
I suppose this must be the 1.7 million dollar house Apple bought when they decided to double the size of the centre.

BTW who is rating this as negative. It has no negative impact at all ... except potentially environmentally.
 

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xforce11 said:
Well as an NC resident it is nice to have Apple here to boost the economy. If they are wanting to expand even better. NC has been hit hard the last decade with the loss of furniture and textile manufacturing as well as tobacco jobs. We are happy to have jobs coming to the state.
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i have one of the last Thomasville bedroom sets ever made in the US. i've had it for 7 years now. bought it from Black's Furniture
 
Just curious where is the adjoining parcel of property that Apple paid 1.7 million dollars for on this map??
never mind I see the post where it is circled.
 
Don Kosak said:
That's awfully big for your typical MobileMe like service.

I suspect more and more that Apple is planning on bundling some major cloud based service with it's mobile devices. On a desktop, you have the luxury of large amounts of local storage, unlimited electricity (to power your 16 core rig) for computations, etc. On mobile devices theses things are limited. Apple could really be poised to raise the bar here.
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A Wise One you are, young Jedi. :apple:
 
It's flipped!

looks like the photo of the first data centre is flipped and cut in with PS(access road as well!). I question why you would put a second facility so close to the first when it's not cost you're worried about but redundancy. If one is 'taken out' there is far too much risk to the other. I don't believe the photo. The other DC would be located somewhere else.
 
mitchmanuk said:
looks like the photo of the first data centre is flipped and cut in with PS(access road as well!). I question why you would put a second facility so close to the first when it's not cost you're worried about but redundancy. If one is 'taken out' there is far too much risk to the other. I don't believe the photo. The other DC would be located somewhere else.
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They won't build the second one for redundancy. If they build it, it will be for capacity and they will just build another one somewhere else for redundancy.
 
PBUser167 said:
They won't build the second one for redundancy. If they build it, it will be for capacity and they will just build another one somewhere else for redundancy.
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allegedly apple is using some indian based company for some of its current itunes stores stuff....... redundancy options to me imply spreading centers around the globe.......... maybe china/s korea/japan next?

ps- the dark side of the moon perhaps?

pps- and mobile me will never be free....... it might become cheaper but needs to be more tweaked

steve jobs gives nothing for free, brilliant design and moneymaking prevails
 
alent1234 said:
once it goes live it will be easy to figure out. just have a router log all traffic, use your iCrap device and see where the IP's go.

if i had to guess, it's for iAd's. with all the growth in iCrap devices you need a lot of computing power to serve the ads and run the analytics
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You're a petty troll. How's that working out for you?
 
You know its a slow news day when we are trying to figure out just how many square feet are in the new Apple data center.

:)

I'm just hoping that Steve is going to announce what this is for as his "last big surprise" of the year.
 
This is silly. Of course they are going to have an expansion plan as part of the initial site selection. It doesn't mean that the expansion is going to start any time soon. It's a non-story.

For example, the Google data center here currently has two server buildings, but the campus is clearly laid out for six, and permitted for four. But there's no expectation of imminent construction.

Hmm... funny how Google Earth has a 10-year old image for the site of the Google data center (showing former industrial use of the site) when all the surrounding frames are less than two years old.
 
when it goes live Steve-O will christen the building and its function as
"iKNOW"
where he gathers data on all and shares it with DHS.
 
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