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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:24PM
I worked at 6 Infinite Loop at a time when the company had 11,000. Now it has something like 60,000 - maybe more by now - but all the manufacturing is done by contractors.
That's why I cannot keep up with their ever-changing deprecations.
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