Apple has confirmed that it bought a piece of land in the American state of Oregon for the construction of a new data center. It comes to a total 64,7 hectares near the city Prineville. Apple has 5.6 million dollars for the land is paid.
In december 2011, reported The Oregonian all of that Apple piece of land in Prineville had in mind, but Apple has now compared to the news site KVTZ confirmed that the company 64,7 hectares of land has been purchased and that which will be used for the construction of a new data center.
The agreement on 15 February signed, said Mike McCabe, judge of Crook County and president of the commission, which goes on sale. McCabe expects that the construction, several hundred jobs will result, while the data center, then job offers to about half of that number.
Just as it was in 2011 in use taken data center in Maiden, North Carolina, would the new data center in Oregon with energy-saving measures. The facility in North Carolina has a special cooling system, in which cool outside air and the storage of chilled water to be used for the energy demand for cooling to reduce.
Oregon is a popular state for data centers. Not only Amazon and Google have data centers, Facebook is represented. This last has been datacentrumcomplex right in front of the future data center from Apple. The popularity is partly explained by the temperate climate and the relatively low energy costs, but also tax breaks for such initiatives, exerts a great attraction. That discount would add up to some millions of dollars, depending on the amount of the investment of Apple and jobs in the area. The application of the discount still needs to be approved by Crook County and is for Apple a vestigingsvoorwaarde.
