Interview: Apple’s Gigantic New Data Center Hints at Cloud Computing

Cult of Mac (Aug 19 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing , Networking

1. Google’s Eric Schmidt “resigned” from Apple’s board because Chrome and Android were encroaching on Apple’s core business, or so Steve Jobs says. But what if the opposite were true? What if Apple is encroaching on Google’s core business? Later this month, Apple is expected to break ground on a massive new data center in Maiden, North Carolina. In terms of size, Apple’s data center is as big as they come. “Apple is planning about 500,000 square feet of data center space in a single building,” says Rich Miller, editor of Data Center Knowledge. “That would place it among the largest data centers in the world… (Read Full Article)

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