Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
New Evidence of Apple's Plans for a Second Data Center Building at NC Site
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
typical
Its a typical schematic design plan. Almost all projects I have worked on as an architect have had the option to double the square footage in the foreseeable future.
I think the design showing the second facility is another 500k sqft, as noted above, and it will be an option. They may or may not have it created based on the economy, or weather the ipad sold as high as it did, but for the architect to do the schematic planning for it (which did not need any additional designing) was cheap. It was better for them to have the idea presented before the community than to try to slip it in later.
Its a typical schematic design plan. Almost all projects I have worked on as an architect have had the option to double the square footage in the foreseeable future.
I think the design showing the second facility is another 500k sqft, as noted above, and it will be an option. They may or may not have it created based on the economy, or weather the ipad sold as high as it did, but for the architect to do the schematic planning for it (which did not need any additional designing) was cheap. It was better for them to have the idea presented before the community than to try to slip it in later.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)
For the haters out there u have to be amaze that this is newsworthy
apple is just on fire
go jobs my hero!
For the haters out there u have to be amaze that this is newsworthy
apple is just on fire
go jobs my hero!
Tom Waits says it best...
"What's he building in there?";
Tom Waits,
Mule Variations,
Released 1999
"What's he building in there?";
Tom Waits,
Mule Variations,
Released 1999
Hey its only one building.
check it out here
http://www.gis.catawba.nc.us/nomap/AssessmentReportCom.asp?key=362711760090&card=1
its the same place where someone before me found the picture of the blueprint... Only one building is approved, so there will only be one building..
check it out here
http://www.gis.catawba.nc.us/nomap/AssessmentReportCom.asp?key=362711760090&card=1
its the same place where someone before me found the picture of the blueprint... Only one building is approved, so there will only be one building..
It goes to show that Apple is moving greater than it's competition. Apple want to head into going beyond everyone else that way the other competition won't have the money or ability to beat them.
Apple wants to be number 1 in every tech they have and now they have enough money to make a blow and evaporate the other competition.
This is the start to Apple not only being number 1 but being the empire!
My thoughts is that this is a data center to be a cloud based for our music, backups, and MobileMe.
Our iPhones, iPod Touch, & iPads will become a stand alone device that syncs by way of cloud.
This could come down to less need of storage space on our devices. The MacBook Air and presumably OS 10.7 is the hint of that. Apple said that the MacBook Air is the future of MacBooks. So MacBook will have SSD flash drives which concludes less storage since flash drives are more expensive than hard drives, so we won't have the 250GB-500GB storage that we have now on our MacBooks with the next gen MacBooks.
I like the way Apple is heading. They are making advance tech easier for us to use.
Apple wants to be number 1 in every tech they have and now they have enough money to make a blow and evaporate the other competition.
This is the start to Apple not only being number 1 but being the empire!
My thoughts is that this is a data center to be a cloud based for our music, backups, and MobileMe.
Our iPhones, iPod Touch, & iPads will become a stand alone device that syncs by way of cloud.
This could come down to less need of storage space on our devices. The MacBook Air and presumably OS 10.7 is the hint of that. Apple said that the MacBook Air is the future of MacBooks. So MacBook will have SSD flash drives which concludes less storage since flash drives are more expensive than hard drives, so we won't have the 250GB-500GB storage that we have now on our MacBooks with the next gen MacBooks.
I like the way Apple is heading. They are making advance tech easier for us to use.
Sure it does tell us something. They extend their use of obscure Star Trek knowledge into their naming schemes.
It's funny, the 40 mile strip of Hwy 321 between Apple and Google is the same strip where there used to be "100 furniture stores." Hickory was the capital of furniture and you could smell it coming out of the factories. It's kinda nice to change from a dirty industry to Apple and Google. We welcome them both with big wide friendly arms.
Huh! I thought the building design looked familiar.....
-
-
The old Mac Mini video adapter.
I knew it I bet this all has to do with Alien technology and this building is some for the purposes of a landing of some sort.
Why is our illustrious homeland security not involved here?
The building appears to be 28 feet tall, on a single level. Could someone who is familiar with data centres explain why that extra height?
Are they racking the electronic bits up two or three levels, and then building open-grid walkways for the technicians to reach the units? Or is there another reason why a data centre needs a cavernous space?
Thanks in advance.
Are they racking the electronic bits up two or three levels, and then building open-grid walkways for the technicians to reach the units? Or is there another reason why a data centre needs a cavernous space?
Thanks in advance.
Steve's ego
But even with two buildings and 10^6 square feet, it still won't match the ego.
Why does they need new data center? What does they process? Or does new iPhones' design requires more calculations?
Not going to happen with one data center. Size is irrelevant in this matter. What matters is the location of data centers. Yes, thats plural there. Single data center can't do jack **** when it comes to cloud services. You need to spread those data centers far and wide with great numbers. Just search Google data center locations to get some perspective.
I would say its to hold cloud computing, .me accounts etc. There was talk of everyones itunes library being streamed from the cloud. Thats the cloud!
Apple will one day, if not soon will hold a lot of peoples data in there. Don't think i fancy that much.
Big Brother, 1984!
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
The building is probably low so that they can install containerised servers. This will improve their flexiblity and allow easier repair but it does mean you can't build up as you need overhead cranage to cover the entire floorspace to move the containers.
What struck me looking at the pictures was the size of the storage tanks, I can only assume they are diesel tanks for the backup generators but they are massive!!
The building is probably low so that they can install containerised servers. This will improve their flexiblity and allow easier repair but it does mean you can't build up as you need overhead cranage to cover the entire floorspace to move the containers.
What struck me looking at the pictures was the size of the storage tanks, I can only assume they are diesel tanks for the backup generators but they are massive!!
It's a room full of computers and networking equipment to hook them together.
For more information, try the Wikipedia entry for data center.
The data itself could be anything: credit card transactions, e-mail messages, music files, videos, photos, tax returns, whatever.
For more information, try the Wikipedia entry for data center.
The data itself could be anything: credit card transactions, e-mail messages, music files, videos, photos, tax returns, whatever.
