Apple To Invest $2B Building Green Data Centers In Ireland and Denmark

stephendavion writes Amid deeper investigations into how Apple may be using its operations in Ireland as a means for tax avoidance on tens of billions of dollars in profit, the iPhone maker has announced that it will spend nearly $2 billion (€1.7 billion) to develop two new 100% renewable energy data centers in Europe. The centers — which will use wind power and other green fuel sources — will be located in Athenry, Ireland, and Viborg, Denmark. Apple said that they will power services such as apps in the App Store, Siri and iMessage. Both locations will run on 100 percent renewable energy and Apple said they will have the 'lowest environmental impact' of its data centers thus far. It will also be following in the footsteps of companies like Facebook, which has also built sustainable data center operations out in Europe.

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Re:Why not in the US?

[drinkypoo]

It doesn't matter if it's 3 acres or 300,000 acres, it's wrong because it's unnecessary and they're going there solely for the purpose of dodging taxes. And it's only possible because of Irish law, which is only set because they're willing to get some jobs at the expense of any other nation's loss of tax revenue. Meanwhile there's whole office parks empty in Spain, but they won't move there because they'd have to pay taxes.

What's more, if you completely remove morality from the equation, it's a win-win for Ireland because if any other nation's economic situation worsens, every other nation's economic situation improves, because speculation.

TL;DR: fuck Apple, fuck Ireland, and fuck speculators