Apple’s new data center in North Carolina is “fully operational” and prepared to “ramp up production,” according to a weekend report. Additionally, the industry publication appears to confirm last week’s report that the Cupertino, Calif. company may double the current 500,000 square-foot server farm.
The report buttresses a July statement by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to reporters. “We expect to complete it by the end of the calendar year, and begin to use it,” the executive said. Since acknowledging the North Carolina site’s existence nearly a year ago, the location has been the source of rumor and speculation.
The center, five times the size of Apple’s current data center in Newark, California, is viewed by some as the tip of the sword in the company’s expected push into cloud computing. Along with Apple’s recently unveiled $99 Apple TV with just 8GB of storage, the company’s just-released MacBook Air, includes only 64GB of flash memory storage. Both products would seem perfect for a cloud computing initiative.
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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.
