Apple is about to reuse a plant already built in the area of Table, Arizona, to create a new data center, according to a statement published by the United States government. Previously, this factory was used by a subcontractor of the Cupertino-based company as a sapphire plant, for apple company's products.
According to said statement, Apple requested the approval of the Board of Exterior Areas to assemble "finished products" in an area that is currently duty free. The city itself has echoed the news and stated that the Californian company has reused said plant on numerous occasions, and that this time the place will be used to carry out "the manufacture of finished data center technologies to complement other country data centers ”.
The news of this location comes from September of last year when the city of Mesa, Arizona, stated that "Apple wanted to adhere to an aggressive production timeline":
«The nature of the end product of this plant is not for end users, but for other global data centers that will be supported from our site«.
As we mentioned, before becoming a data center, the facility was originally a plant of the company outsourced by Apple called GT Advanced, intended to supply sapphire for Apple products. Nevertheless, GT It was unable to meet Apple's demands and recently filed for bankruptcy, leaving all its facilities to Apple. Since then, Apple has hired staff, and now they are ready to face this new challenge in the city of Kitchen.
One source also claimed that the servers Apple uses in its data centers in Oregon and North Carolina are currently taking a leading role, but after the start of the operation of this plant, soon the heaviest workload will take place in the new Arizona.
