“Ever-expanding Apple Computer Inc. has acquired an impressively equipped but never-used data center in Newark for an estimated $45 million to $50 million. The 107,000-square-foot facility, originally conceived for communications company MCI WorldCom before getting mothballed after its 2001 completion, is along Eureka Drive on Newark’s western fringe,” Brad Berton reports for The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. “Data centers generally house computing, data-storage and networking equipment assisting in Web-based services and transactions. The most elaborate ‘Tier IV’ centers such as the Newark facility have the highest levels of redundancy and security, and can cost upwards of $1,200 per square foot to erect and equip. Cupertino-based Apple, which declined to discuss its facilities, is thought to have paid in the vicinity of $450 per foot.”
Full article here.
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Apple Computer leases 116,830-square-foot building in Cupertino – February 03, 2006
Bargain.
Home of the new iView Video Store?
Perhaps Apple’s ties with the mob is finally coming to fruition. I suspect Mr. Big and his gang are planning to “over-gold” the streets as much as possible.
“How does he go to the bathroom will all that sh#t on him?!”
BrianD, I think so too. This is a plan waiting to come together. I bet SJ has a chess game on his desk.
BrianD, I think so too. This is a plan waiting to come together. I bet SJ has a chess game on his desk.
Isn’t Newark chosen for it’s proximity to those huge transatlantic data links?
I bet SJ has a chess game on his desk.
Don’t you mean Desktop?
Not home of the new Video Store. JUst redundancy for all of Apple’s Stores. Expect them to build/buy similar facilities in Europe and Asia as well.
With over a billion iTunes served I’d say Apple is gearing up to pump out a lot more “data”.
And for all the pundits who keep blabbering the same old tired story of “Apple doesn’t make any money selling iTunes”, you guys are very mistaken!
(With Apologies to Technotronic)
If you are going to push “Oceans” of Data on demand you had better have a very big pump and a lot of water.
ROB DUNFORD wrote on Feb 27, 06 – 10:56 am:
Isn’t Newark chosen for it’s proximity to those huge transatlantic data links?
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Possibly, but I was thinking this purchase was in Newark, California. I could be wrong.
It’s Newark, CA allright – read the article.
If you read the original article, it’s clear that this data center is in Newark, CA.
http://getkickedoffaplanewearingthis.blogspot.com/
I knew I’d get it all wrong, that’s what comes from living on the other side of the pond:)
I didn’t think it was clear from the article. Perhaps because I have never heard of Newark, CA.
Apparently, neither has The Mac Observer:
“Apple recently acquired a 107,000 square-foot data center in Newark, New Jersy for somewhere between US$45 and $50 million.”
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/02/27.7.shtml
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Hey guys I was right…
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http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Eureka+Drive,+Newark,+NJ
No you’re not. There’s a Eureka Drive in Newark CA as well …
It’s definitely CA. I just googled Eureka Drive in both places. Only in CA and it’s about 30KM from Cupertino.
ok, alright, you win, I give up, cuff me off to the funny farm
http://appleinsider.com/image.php?i=apple-property-newark1&id=1557&pe=1
Glad that’s CA, NJ would be proximate to a port recently sold…
What a bargain? Never used? Wait till the wind shifts and you’ll find out why no one occupies the place. Oh, the stench!
This is huge– see MacRumors article.