Apple’s possible $1 billion investment

Rumor has it that Apple is shopping around at this time for a location to implement a $1 Billion server farm on the East Coast of the United States. Specifically, the company is considering North Carolina as a possible location. According to Data Center Knowledge, officials in North Carolina “are rushing to pass enhanced tax breaks to woo Apple to their state rather than neighboring Virginia, which just passed its own incentives for data center projects”. For those of you who don’t know, a server farm is essentially a huge cluster of networked servers, used to provide various online services to users. Though there isn’t too much detail at this point in time, this might actually suggest that Apple is planning something incredible for the future. Of course, that’s purely speculation. It’s certainly possible that Apple is looking to set aside some more resources for its fast-growing iTunes and App stores.

Whatever this turns out to be, it’s quite the investment.

[ via Data Center Knowledge ]