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Apple expenditures to grow on solar project, new campus

by Mike Schramm (Oct 31st, 2011)

Apple's got incredible amounts of money in the bank, as you probably already know. According to recent financial filings, Apple is about to spend a good bit of it. The company will reportedly spend US$8 billion during the next financial year, which is more than twice what it spend during the ...

Apple to build a solar farm next to North Carolina data center

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 26th, 2011)

Apple is reportedly building a solar farm to provide energy for its North Carolina data center. An erosion permit granted by Catawba County, North Carolina gives Apple permission to transform 171 acres of vacant land across from the data center into a solar farm. The area will be resloped and ...

Northlake, North Carolina Apple Store to open this month

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2011)

According to a writer at a local Charlotte, North Carolina blog, a source inside the upcoming Apple Store in the Northlake area says it could open as soon as August 25 or 26. This store won't be far from Apple's big North Carolina data center. Last May, we heard that it was moving from a ...

Why didn't we see a Nuance announcement during WWDC?

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 7th, 2011)

One major rumor missing from the WWDC keynote yesterday was voice control. It was just last year that Apple purchased Siri, a popular voice companion app for iOS. Apple was also rumored to be working with Nuance to offer some form of voice control in its software. References to Nuance were ...

Apple's North Carolina data center now visible on Google Earth

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 1st, 2011)

Apple's humongous data center in North Carolina is now visible on Google Earth and Google Maps satellite view. You can see the entire building and two roads leading in and out of the compound. Oddly, there is no space for on-site employee parking, at least not yet. An eagle-eyed reader picked ...

New Apple store to open near North Carolina data center

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 31st, 2011)

Apple is eyeing Charlotte for its next retail store in North Carolina. Building permits and a job listing suggest the new store will move into space #280 in Charlotte's Northlake Mall. This second level location is 16 miles from its existing store in the South Park Mall and about 30 miles from ...

Apple-Nuance deal may take root in NC datacenter

by Michael Rose (May 9th, 2011)

The stars appear to have aligned for the rumored Apple-Nuance deal, according to TechCrunch. The suggested strategic partnership between the Cupertino tech giant and the Burlington, MA speech-savvy software firm may find its first expression in Apple's new North Carolina data center, per the ...

Local TV station visits Apple's data center

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 24th, 2011)

A Fox affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina took a closer look at Apple's new data center in the town of Maiden. The news story and accompanying video is rife with speculation about the intended usage of this 500,000 square-foot building. Once you get past the references for Apple's supposed ...

Apple hires Microsoft Data Center manager

by Mike Schramm (Apr 14th, 2011)

You can add even more kindling to the rumor fire burning around Apple's new data center in North Carolina. AllThingsD reports that the company picked up Kevin Timmons as a new employee; he's been working as Microsoft's Manager of Data Center services since 2009. Microsoft confirmed that he left ...

Made up predictions about Apple's NC data center from (surprise!) an analyst

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 24th, 2011)

photo by raneko on Flickr Friend of the blog Philip Elmer-DeWitt with Fortune Tech uncovered a gem of a note from Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi wherein, after a "meeting with Apple executives," he came up with quite the sampler platter of predictions for Apple's North Carolina data ...

iTunes could get cloud-based backup solution

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2011)

Late last year I predicted 2011 would be the year of the cloud for Apple, and so far I've been right. I said OS X Lion would be sold via the App Store, and it certainly will. Here's the other part of Apple's cloud strategy: the company is reportedly looking to use the cloud for iTunes, not as ...

Apple's North Carolina data center to go live this spring

by Erica Sadun (Feb 23rd, 2011)

The cloud is the future, and the future appears to be arriving this spring, as Apple's North Carolina data center is finally due to go live, according to reports from today's Apple annual shareholder meeting. The phrase "in the cloud" refers to data hosted at off-site internet-accessible ...

Answered questions about Apple's North Carolina data center

by Dave Caolo (Dec 17th, 2010)

Much conjecture has come of the Death Star that Apple is building in North Carolina. Some suspect it will power a future streaming version of iTunes or a major update to MobileMe. The folks at Data Center Knowledge have combined the rumors with their own knowledge about these things into a single, ...

Apple's North Carolina data center nears completion

by Keith M (Oct 5th, 2010)

It seems we've been discussing Apple's upcoming, massive North Carolina datacenter for a long, long time -- since around May 2009, actually. Word is that the $1 billion facility is nearing completion, meaning we'll hopefully see the fruits of Apple's labor very soon. Here's one interesting item ...

Event streaming to stress-test new datacenter

by Michael Rose (Sep 1st, 2010)

Not much of a surprise, but nice to have some details: Cult of Mac cites a source close to Apple saying that the live stream of today's iPod event will be used to put some real-time load on Apple's new North Carolina data center. The facility isn't all the way operational quite yet, but it's ...