Its really there.
Apple has started building a new 500,000-square feet data center in Maiden, North Carolina with construction to be completed by late 2010. The data center reportedly will use about 20 megawatts annually – enough to power 16,000 homes. Here is the first glimpse from the air:
The new Apple facility will be the company’s East Coast operations center and would according to some take advantage of the 3 hour time change on the East Coast to facilitate communications between European operations/sales and California for data transmission.
This data center is estimated to cost over a billion dollars which is double the cost that Google is investing in a large data center in Lenoir, NC, 28 miles to the north.
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Tuesday, February 23
