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http://www.france24.com/en/20150202-...a-data-center/

03 February 2015 - 05H30
Apple to open $2 bn solar-powered Arizona data center

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -

Apple unveiled plans Monday to pump $2 billion over the coming decade into a data center "global command" facility in the southwest state of Arizona.

The project represents one of the largest investments ever by the maker of the iPhone, iPod, iPad and Macintosh computer.

"We're proud to continue investing in the US with a new data center in Arizona, which will serve as a command center for our global networks," Apple said in an email to AFP.

"Like all Apple data centers, it will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy, much of which will come from a new local solar farm."

The facility with some 120,000 square meters (1.3 million square feet) had been the planned site of a plant to produce sapphire glass screens in a collaboration with GT Advance Technologies......