Last months, the Apple company purchased a large enough land in a town in Oregon to build several data centers for its systems. Apple has already opened a modular data center of over 3000 m² in that location, and now It started a new $68 million project involving the construction of a new building for a second data center. The project represents only part of the investment that the company will make in that region, it will build a second building in the near future.
Apple has begun work on the first, $68 million phase of its new Prineville data center, clearing and flattening land for the one of two, 338,000 square-foot buildings atop the bluff that overlooks town… The price tag covers the cost of one building and two "data halls" inside. Plans filed with the city and Crook County last summer call for adding a second building and, eventually, 14 more data halls.
For now, it is not known exactly when Apple will finish the entire project and what it will use these data centers for, but they will probably be used for iCloud and other online systems that Apple offers.
