iCloud Solar Farm And Spaceship HQ Could Push Apple Costs To $8B

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Apple’s massive new solar farm and their next-gen spaceship campus will boost the tech giant’s 2012 expense to $8 billion — a 73% hike over this year, one analyst told investors Monday.

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iTunes Could Cost Apple Over $2 Billion A Year To Run By 2012

iTunes is huge, and getting huger every day… but so are its operating costs. According to a new report by Asymco, iTunes is pushing almost a billion dollars a year to run.

Currently, Apple’s iTunes operating costs come in at $75 million a month, which is two and a half times what it cost to run iTunes just last year. Multiply that by twelve and you have the yearly budget.

Right now, iTunes is only $100 million shy of the $1 billion mark, but if you assume iTunes will continue to grow at 2009’s rate, iTunes might just cost Apple over $2.25 billion to keep afloat by the end of 2011. Somehow I’m guessing they’ll be able to afford it.

• Via 9to5Mac