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Apple Ready to Roll in Reno .. With a Coop?
March 27th, 2013 : Rich MillerApple Insider has obtained some aerial photos and one close-up of a new structure on the Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, which raises some interesting questions about its design and how Apple is staging its deployment of capacity. Read More
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Apple Hits 100% Renewable Energy in its Data Centers
March 22nd, 2013 : Jason VergeApple said Thursday that it has achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of its data centers, including facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, California and Nevada. Read More
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$1.5 Billion Iowa Project is Still Alive. Is it Apple?
February 1st, 2013 : Rich MillerThe mysterious $1.5 billion project known as Project Catapult is apparently back in play in Iowa. Local officials aren't identifying the mystery company, but an intriguing clue has emerged from documents suggesting the project will use solar power and fuel cells. Read More
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Report: Apple Building Data Center in Hong Kong
September 19th, 2012 : Rich MillerRumor patrol: 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple plans to build a huge data center in Hong Kong, extending its data center infrastucture beyond the U.S. Read More
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Nevada Touts Data Centers as Key to Revival
August 27th, 2012 : Rich MillerNevada officials want your data to stay in Vegas. Or perhaps Reno, or other areas of the state, which is touting data centers as a growth sector as it seeks to diversify its economy. That effort, built atop the success of the SuperNAP in Las Vegas, has gained momentum from Apple's decision to build a huge server farm near Reno. Read More
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Apple Expansion Boosts Prineville Data Center Ecosystem
August 16th, 2012 : Rich MillerIt's been a big week for Prineville, Oregon, with both Apple and Facebook filing expansion plans this week, the town of about 10,000 people in central Oregon is showing signs of progress in a bid to become a data center destination. Read More
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Is Apple Going Modular at its North Carolina iDataCenter?
July 19th, 2012 : Rich MillerIt looks like the next phase of Apple's North Carolina data center will feature small modular data centers that can deploy compute capacity in small increments. The new design represents a major change from the first phase of Apple's iDataCenter campus, a 500,000 square foot building that is one of the largest structures in the data center industry. Read More
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Updated: The Apple Data Center FAQ
May 29th, 2012 : Rich MillerApple's data center team has been busy since November, 2010, when we first compiled our coverage of Apple’s data center expansion projects into a one-stop resource. Check out the Updated Apple Data Center FAQ for full details on the company's expanding infrastructure to support iCloud and iTunes. Read More
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Video: Apple Preps Solar Power Site for iDataCenter
March 21st, 2012 : Rich MillerIt takes a lot of land to build a 20 megawatt array of solar panels. Apple has been busy clearing land in Maiden, North Carolina, where the company has announced plans for a huge field of photovoltaic solar panels to support its data center facility. A new aerial video shot this month by Five 9s [...] Read More
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How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
