Aerial Footage of Apple's North Carolina Data Center

Doesn't look like the roof supports Flash. :eek:

Somehow I was expecting a giant glass cube. :D

Imagine how many songs you could fit into that data centre! :)

I find it odd it is missing the huge glowing Apple in the center or that there was a missing plug-in icon.

When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.

:apple:

When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.

:apple:

Pointless. Google's cornered the market. Between Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc etc, how many do we need? It's not like I need one for every day of the week. I use Google, and it gets the job done, and that's that. It can't be improved at the moment. It is what it is.

I feel like cloud computing is the most logical idea for this center. Things would be so much less of a hassle if the Operating System, applications, files, etc were all cloud based. Less weight to machines, less moving / breakable parts, more power to dedicate to the immediate system as all it's doing is manipulating files on a server... It all just makes more sense. One day, I think that's where we'll be heading.

I for one, want to work there. It looks like a great place. Then again, key words, 'looks like'.

When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.

:apple:

As much as Apple likes to control their content, I'm not sure why they'd want to get into the search engine business, since Google pretty much has a significant lead. That's not usually Apple's M.O.

My guess is that it has something to do with a future attempt at application hosting. That would explain the size.

As much as Apple likes to control their content, I'm not sure why they'd want to get into the search engine business, since Google pretty much has a significant lead. That's not usually Apple's M.O.

My guess is that it has something to do with a future attempt at application hosting. That would explain the size.

Google's "size" means nothing when they can make their search engine the default search on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Safari (Mac/PC). They'd get about 15-20% of the market. It'd have to be user friendly, useful, well designed, and still load fast. It'd fit well with their new advertising division.

I don't think they'd beat Google, but it'd probably do better than Bing.

:apple:

Imagine the data bandwidth going into and out of that building! Probably a bit of an electricity bill too once it's in full operation.

Imagine the data bandwidth going into and out of that building! Probably a bit of an electricity bill too once it's in full operation.

Yup. and the area is going to have an influx of HVAC people since it must stay cool.

I'm guessing the median income of a AC/HVAC person just went up in that area.