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Check out this article talking about Apple reported to be looking at building a data center, I wonder if this is to power further online services as part of their mobile me service, backup/online storage? Even web based Apple desktop hosting? Could I virtualize my mac and carry it around the web with me? We’ll have to wait and see, in the meantime, I’m off to read up more.

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As Mike mentioned in the news roundup yesterday, word is going around that the corporate overlords at Apple are planning to build a massive server farm in the state of North Carolina within the next decade or so. How do we know? Because the company is working on getting a few nice tax breaks to go along with the deal, eventually worth about $46 million if Apple fulfills their end of the agreement. Their end of the agreement being a huge investment of a whopping $1 billion (that’s over 333,000 Xserves, if that is indeed what they’re installing — and we bet not) into an economy that could probably use it. What exactly will go in there? We aren’t sure — lawmakers say the investment is worth it, and obviously Apple isn’t showing their cards.

[Note: the $1B investment figure is not an upfront number, but rather a total investment over the first 9 years of operation. –Ed.]

But the facility, once up and running, will start by employing at least 100 people, so that’s a nice start. Google has apparently gone through the same deal with North Carolina recently, though their deal was a little smaller: $600 million investment for a server farm that opened last year.

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