Joke

Robert X. Cringely on Apple’s massive North Carolina data center:

But before leaving town I was determined to scope out that $1 billion Apple data center in Maiden, NC. So I drove over, took some pictures, and talked to folks at the convenience store down the road. My conclusions from this unscientific research is that the giant Apple facility is mainly empty. It’s a huge building filled more or less with nothing and why Apple built it that way frankly escapes me. Maybe it’s just a shot across the bow of Google and its $650 million data center in South Carolina.

Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, disputing Cringely’s analysis:

Wow. Did a well-known tech columnist just allege that Apple built an enormous fake data center? And, in essence, accuse Steve Jobs of modeling data center vaporware when he showed off pictures of server rooms filled with gear at the recent WWDC?

Yes.

Cringely’s been half-nuts for years. Now I think he’s full-nuts.

★ Wednesday, 29 June 2011