While most of the mystery of Apple’s North Carolina data super center comes from the fact that we’re still not really sure what Cupertino will be using it for, let’s not underestimate another contributing factor to the intrigue: the fact that Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data center appears as a big, gaping hole in the Earth under Google Maps. But no longer!
While Apple had previously asked Google to keep an aerial view of their data center obscured under Google Maps, with yesterday’s announcement of WWDC, Apple also unofficially “announced” the data center by asking Google to unobscure the facility.
Not that it’s anything particularly interesting to look at: a big white building with a road snaking towards it. But if the timing of the announcement is anything to go by, Apple has just confirmed that within that data center, iClouds are made.
[via Fortune]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
11 responses to “This Is What Apple’s iCloud Data Super Center Looks Like From Satellite”
I’m pretty sure it’s already in use. It’s not like they are going to throw some big switch at the WWDC, (or if they do, it will be stagecraft only).
Have they got more than one data centre or is this the only one?
typical apple white
Rumor has it they are building another one in/around Cupertino…
wheres the redundancy?
Don’t ask for a tour – security’s very tight. Delta barriers going in, tire shredders going out.