Apple will invest about 250 million dollars in its new iCloud Datacenter in Prineville-Oregon. Recently Apple acquired 160 acres of land to build this iCloud datacenter, only a few steps away from Facebook’s Datacenter. Last Friday, the details of this arrangement were revealed.
A few weeks ago we reported about the environmental friendly power-supply for Apple’s iCloud Datacenter in Maiden-North Carolina. When this datacenter is fully completed, it will have a massive solar array and a biogas fuel-cell plant. This will generate about 60% of the required energy for the Maiden Datacenter. But for the new datacenter Apple is building in Prineville-Oregon, the goals are even more ambitious. According to Apple’s spokesman Kristin Huguet:
Maiden will soon be the greenest data center ever built, and it will be joined next year by our new facility in Oregon running on 100 percent renewable energy.
Agreement iCloud DatacenterApple already confirmed in February that they were planning to build this huge, 100% green datacenter in Prineville, but The Associated Press revealed the details of the arrangements between the City of Prineville, Crook County and Apple. The agreement includes the following points:
Apple will pay Prineville and Crook County a yearly flat fee of $150.000 during 15 yearsApple will provide at least 35 jobs at the Prineville datacenter, with a payment of at least 150% of the average wage.Apple will invest $250 million Dollar in the already acquired 160 acres of landIn return for this, Apple receives a property tax exemption for 15 years.At this very moment, Apple is constructing a 10.000-square-foot modular data center: A pre-built structure that can be up-and-running in August this year. After finishing that, Apple will begin building the much larger facility, similar to the recently opened Facebook Datacenter, a few miles away.
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