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Report: Apple Has Spent $750M on iDataCenter
When Apple announced its plans for a huge data center in North Carolina, the company said it intended to spend $1 billion on the facility in the next nine years. The timetable used a timetable included in a package of economic development incentives that helped sway Apple’s decision to build in Maiden, N.C. instead of a rival site in Virginia. But rather than spreading that spending over a full 10 years, it appears that Apple may have already spent a huge chunk of that total investment goal. A new analysis by 9to5mac suggests that Apple has already spent as much as $750 million on the iDataCenter. Read the full account at 9to5mac.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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October 14th, 2011