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Apple Agrees to Invest $250 Million at Oregon Data Center Site
Associated Press reports that Apple has reached a deal with local governments to finalize its plans for a new data center in Prineville, Oregon. According to the report, Apple has agreed to invest $250 million in facilities on its 160-acre property, and will offer an annual $150,000 "project fee" in lieu of property taxes over the next fifteen years. The company has also guaranteed to bring at least 35 jobs to the center at 150% of the average wage in the county.
Apple's new data center in Maiden, North Carolina
Apple just recently opened another data center in Maiden, North Carolina, where the company has indicated that it plans to spend $1 billion. The company is building a 20-megawatt solar farm and a 5-megawatt fuel cell facility at the data center, two of the largest privately-owned renewable energy projects of their kind in the country.
The $150,000 project fee in part of an agreement with Apple that was made public this week. Prineville City Manager Steve Forrester called it a common arrangement.Apple paid $5.6 million for the project site back in February, and has already begun installation of a modular data center in order to build out some capacity ahead of construction on the main facility. Apple noted earlier this week in response to a Greenpeace report on data centers being powered by coal-derived energy that it intends for its Prineville data center to run on "100% renewable energy".
The Oregonian reports that the value of the tax break will depend on how much Apple winds up investing. Similar tax breaks on Google's $1.3 billion data center in The Dalles are worth more than $24 million to the company annually, the newspaper said.
Apple's new data center in Maiden, North Carolina
Apple just recently opened another data center in Maiden, North Carolina, where the company has indicated that it plans to spend $1 billion. The company is building a 20-megawatt solar farm and a 5-megawatt fuel cell facility at the data center, two of the largest privately-owned renewable energy projects of their kind in the country.
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78 months ago
Land of the free*. Where you have to pay rent to the government for the private property you already bought - or else. <insert suspenseful music>
You mean to the government that records your title, staffs the fire dept., hires the sheriffs deputies, maintains the roads to get there, supplies the water, processes the sewer, keeps you from fouling the air and water, built the dam and transmission lines that delivers power?
78 months ago
Land of the free*. Where you have to pay rent to the government for the private property you already bought - or else. <insert suspenseful music>
Yeah public services cost nothing, obviously.
78 months ago
God bless photoshop for making our businesses' skies and parking lots so pristine.
78 months ago
At least 35 jobs? Amazing! That will reduce Oregon`s unemployment!
The construction of the datacenter will produce a lot more than 35.
78 months ago
It isn't Apple's job to create jobs
...but Jobs created Apple!
;)
I agree, though. Datacentres create lots of temporary jobs during construction of the facility - but most of them are basically "lights out" operations managed remotely from a central operations site once they're online.
After they're up and running, the on-site crew is pretty small.
78 months ago
At the unemployment line of course. :rolleyes: So lets see average wage there is 5.75 a hour times 150% will be a whole 8.62 cents more.
You are very bad at math.
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