After its first Data Center inaugurated this past summer, the guys from Cupertino now plan to open a second Data Center in foulum, already entered the year 2017. It will be part of the strategy taken by the company since last fiscal year, when it announced that it was going to use an item of about $ 2 million for both data centers in Europe.
foulum it's a small town near Viborg - in the center of Jutland, Denmark - where in addition, Apple will have collaboration with Aarhus University about a new biogas project, in the research and development section of the country.
This research will analyze how to convert biogas into electricity through the use of fuel cells together with the help of various agricultural waste materials from local agriculture.
The chancellor Kristian jensen He said that the country's new collaboration with the North American company is "an excellent continuity to Apple's million-dollar investment in the data center."
It's a statement, Jensen showed his approval of this move:
“The new association is a good example that the Ministry of Development invests in efforts to attract investments of this type to Denmark and that they are giving the country excellent results. It also illustrates that large investors like Apple often want to contribute to research and expansion of renewable energy capacity in Denmark for the benefit of all. "
In addition, this new move by Apple means, for the Danish country, an investment of about 6,3 million crowns, making it the largest foreign capital in history from Denmark.
This new data center, which will have about 166.000 square meters of facilities, will serve to strengthen online services from Apple throughout Europe, including the different iTunes stores, App Store, Apple Music and iCloud, among others.
The official launch date for this new data center will be sometime in 2017, Although the construction of this technological center will not be completed until 2026.
Throughout this year, Apple has had several blocks in the planning of its first data center in Ireland. However, in August, the company finally got approval and permits to open its doors in County Galway. The initial plan of the Californian company was to have this center fully operational at the beginning of 2017, but a lot has happened since the first proposal, so surely they will take a little longer to reach their goal.
