Following a meeting between Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Varadkar said that Apple is not committed to going forward with a planned $1 billion datacenter:
A planned $1 billion Apple data center is in doubt after Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the U.S. company's Chief Executive Tim Cook would no longer commit to it, adding that Dublin would do whatever necessary to get it built.
Apple announced plans in February 2015 to build the facility in a rural location in the west of Ireland to take advantage of green energy sources nearby, but the project has faced a two-year delay due to planning objections.
In a meeting on Thursday, Cook did not commit to going ahead with it, Varadkar told state broadcaster RTE. "We didn't get a start date, or a definite commitment or anything like that," said Varadkar, who is on a tour of the United States to meet investors, adding he had told Cook that the government would do "anything within our power" to facilitate the resumption of the project.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:48PM (5 children)
Yeah, wonder if they asked for the billions in back taxes at the same meeting?
(Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday November 07 2017, @09:44PM (2 children)
That's the problem. The EU is trying to force Ireland to tax Apple.
Ireland is trying not to, because those tax schemes are the pre-brexit key to their prosperity (post-brexit, being the only anglophone and EU still helps).
I think Cook is sending a message to Ireland to push the EU back stronger. Since it doesn't look possible under the current treaties, Apple may take its investment to the next friendliest place (reset the clock on the tax rulings)
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:20PM
Paradise papers leaked, and Apple isn't sure it will actually HAVE the money to pay them back.
Besides, didn't apple just move EU headquarters to the Jersey Islands or some place
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey.html [nytimes.com]
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/apples-secret-offshore-island-hop-revealed-by-paradise-papers-leak-icij/ [icij.org]
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:31PM
So would he, like a certain Sun salesman claimed in the 1990s, give a blowjob to close the sale? Inquiring minds want to know.