Where will you get the fastest streaming speeds once iCloud launches? Most likely at the new retail location Apple is opening up a stone’s throw from its North Carolina data super center.
Apple is considering opening a new retail store about 30 miles from the data center, in Charlotte’s Northlake Mall. According to reports, Apple has already applied for building permits and is looking to hire employees The location would be 16 miles from another Apple Store in South Park Mall and would become the fifth store in North Carolina.
For some time, observers have attempted to explain potential uses for the $1 billion data center Apple has built. Although the dominant belief is the complex will be used for streaming media to iOS devices, a new theory is that the location will assist plans to bring voice-recognition to iOS 5.
Whatever the speculation, Apple officials have pledged to open the facility soon… and the new Charlotte Apple Store will be the closest retail location to take advantage of it.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
8 responses to “New Apple Store Will Get Direct Hookup To North Carolina Data Super Center”
That conclusion assumes that the data center has anything to do with retail systems and it is very possible that it does not.
the post reads like an announcement of a new store opening that just so happens to be in the same locale as the data center. so what? not sure the headline relates to the story at all…
Really? An apple store in a Mall is going to get a direct hookup to a data-center 30 miles away.
You are pathetic. You wrote the headline to get eye balls to read an Apple Store Opening..
If any body has seen Phoenix Nights… Did Keith Lard design this shopping center