Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's

1sockchuck writes "Apple may build a huge new data center next door to the Facebook server farm in rural Prineville, Oregon. Slashdot has previously noted the potential that Prineville could become a data center mecca due to its climate, which is ideal for using fresh air to cool servers. The scenario could mirror the trend in rural North Carolina, where both Apple and Facebook have built data centers. It's always been likely that Apple will need at least one other large data center complex to provide backup capabilities for the facility in North Carolina."

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Opportunity

[Reyendo]

One well placed nuclear missile...

Re:Opportunity

[Anonymous Coward]

Or just a normal explosive, you freak.

better a little more north

[statsone]

Canada offers cheap electricity and even cooler temperatures. More than welcome here.

Re:better a little more north

[mcrbids]

Sadly, your country doesn't have the strong privacy laws like we have in the United States *cough* Patriot Act *cough* so this is not a possibility.

Re:better a little more north

[rtb61]

Build for summer, regret the winters. Cool summer temperatures inevitably mean snow in winter and travel is difficult in snow. Cheap cooling, park yourself near the coast in temperate climes and use heat exchangers to achieve your cooler temperatures. Also avoid, typhoon or hurricane prone zones, tornadoes, seismic instability and of course flooding. Power should also be drawn from more than one grid, close access to a university is also desirable (user testing, direct training), a substantive employment base to avoid having to bring in all staff and, access to main thorough fairs for better transport options is also desirable.

Likely what went on with that choice was some stupidly corrupt pay no taxes deal, something that should be put a stop to a federal, state and county level. What ever happened to all being treated equally, screw the scum sucking corporate tax cheats.

Apple and Facebook new theory about data

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

Osmosis!

Re:The Job Creators at Work

[AHuxley]

Guards, a few low end staff to swap out the data media when needed 24/7, gardeners so the landscape looks pretty for a congress critter media event, a few smart admins to cover all the real time error reports (off site is fine).
No need for on site engineers, plumbers, electricians, technical staff, admins - just swap out the media and look at id's at the gates.

Error 503 Service Unavailable

[larry bagina]

Maybe slashdot needs an Oregon data center.

Re:Ok who else...

[rsmith-mac]

They would just be hiring grunts. The NC Apple data center only has about 50 employees, as the only on-site people they need are techies to keep the servers up. Data centers themselves are capital-intensive but require little in the way of permanent labor beyond the skeleton crew, as the only big labor pushes would be construction and whatever you bring in if you overhaul the systems.

Facebook should patent Oregon datacenters

[Anonymous Coward]

Facebook should sue apple for stealing their datacenter location ideas :)

Re:Facebook should patent Oregon datacenters

[Mitsoid]

Wrong, Sir. Facebook is obviously infringing on apple's intellectual property by building a data center that has 4 walls, a floor, and a ceiling.

Re:The Job Creators at Work

[QuantumRiff]

Facebook has about 55 employees onsite in prineville (a town of 10k). They are adding more when they finish their second datacenter at the location. I was reading an article yesterday about how the town loves it.. Facebook orders lunch from a different local restraunt every day for 55 employees. Use locals for as much as they can, and only a few of the employees are transplants, most were trained locally.

Plus more than half of the construction jobs were sourced locally..

Now the amazon datacenter, up in boardman, OR, that is just basically a bunch of shipping containers..

Its like mcDonalds

[QuantumRiff]

When I was a kid, I remember my store manager (one of the franchise owners) mentioning how much research went into a new location for McDonalds. The sheer amount of research, planning, etc. And he (probably jokingly) said that Burger King would just look for where McDonalds was building, and go across the street :)