Apple Maiden NC (iDataCenter)
Operated by Apple · Maiden, NC, US2 srcupdated 3mo ago
Apple's first large owned datacenter campus, opened in 2010 on 183 acres in Maiden, North Carolina, and now over 1 million sq ft across multiple buildings serving iCloud and Apple services. Grid power comes from Duke Energy, supplemented on site by three 20MW solar farms and a 10MW biogas fuel cell installation generating a reported 244 million kWh of renewable energy per year. Apple has invested roughly $3bn in the campus and committed a further $448m in April 2021. No IT load figure is published.
Compared to peers
Compared with 166 peer facilities in US.
- Capacity (MW)
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- median 34 · p95 1,800
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Ownership chain (Apple)
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Public subsidies & incentives
- North Carolina + Catawba County (HB1762 'Apple bill')US-NC · tax-abatement$46.0Mannounced 2009.6.04 · 10y term · 50 jobs claimed
Permits
- zoningCatawba County Board of Commissioners / Town of Maidengranted
- environmentalNC DEQ - Division of Air Qualitygranted
Timeline
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Power
- Primary source
- hybrid
- Utility
- Duke Energy
- PUE pledged
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