時事新聞:蘋果建超級數據中心 彰顯“雲計算”野心
【英文原文】
Apple’s ‘Big-A ’ Data Center
Apple’s plans to build a North Carolina data center will result in a massive facility that could signal its next big initiative, one data-center expert says.
The company announced the billion-dollar project in June, following state tax incentives aimed at it, but has said little about its goals since. On Wednesday, an Apple spokeswoman said, “We’re looking forward to beginning construction on our new data center in Maiden, N.C., in the coming weeks,” but declined further comment.
In an interview with Cult of Mac, Rich Miller, editor of trade publication Data Center Knowledge, said that site plans indicate that Apple’s center will be some 500,000 square feet in one building, making it one of the largest of its kind. “This would qualify as a big-a data center,” he said.
Its size hints that Apple may be considering an infrastructure-intensive cloud-computing initiative, he added. “The companies that are building the biggest data centers tend to also have the biggest cloud ambitions.”
In a previous Data Center Knowledge article, Mr. Miller noted that the Maiden center will be nearly five times the size of Apple’s Newark, Calif., facility.
【中文譯文】
蘋果公司(Apple)計劃在北卡羅來納州興建一個大型數據中心，一位數據中心專家表示，這個數據中心的超大規模可能暗示了蘋果下一個重要項目。
OS X高級副總裁Bertrand Serlet 6月份在蘋果公司全球研發者大會上宣講Snow Leopard在北卡羅來納州推出相關稅務優惠條件後，蘋果公司於6月份宣佈了投資十億美元的數據中心項目，但此後便很少提及這一項目。蘋果公司一位發言人週三表示，我們計劃未來數週開始興建在北卡羅來納州梅登的新數據中心，但她拒絕進一步發表評論。
在接受熱門博客Cult of Mac採訪時，行業刊物《Data Center Knowledge》編輯裏奇•米勒(Rich Miller)表示，蘋果這個數據中心單棟建築的佔地規模達到了50萬平方英尺，是全球最大的數據中心之一。這算的上是一個超級規模的數據中心了。
米勒補充說，從這個數據中心的超大規模來看，蘋果可能正在考慮一個需要大量基礎設施支持的雲計算項目。那些正在興建最大規模數據中心的公司一般都在雲計算方面擁有巨大野心。
米勒此前在《Data Center Knowledge》發表文章指出，北卡羅來納州梅登的這個數據中心規模幾乎是蘋果在加州紐瓦克數據中心的五倍。
