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Apple Plans $1.3B Data Center
Cupertino, CA-based Apple plans to develop a $1.3-billion data center outside of Des Moines, IA. The 400,000-square-foot facility will serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the App Store and other Apple services.
The Silicon Valley tech giant is acquiring 2,000 acres of land on Waukee’s west side, and envisions developing two data center facilities in an initial phase. Construction on the first data center is expected to start early next year and is slated to come online in 2020. Once operational, the data center will run entirely on renewable energy.
Apple plans to contribute up to $100 million to a newly created Public Improvement Fund for the development of community projects. The first project the fund will support is construction of the Waukee Youth Sports Campus, featuring a greenhouse, playground, fishing pier and fields for high school and public sporting events.
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