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Apple converting its Sapphire plant into a datacenter. $2 billion investement

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Apple will convert its Sapphire manufacturing plant that failed to produce glass for Apple due to a combination of miss management on both Apple and GT Advanced Technologies side, and GT Advanced Technologies inability to mass produce it's glass for Apple iPhone.

 

Apple will be investing $2 billion dollars to convert the plant into a data center.

 


Apple initially built the plant for GT Advanced Technologies, which Apple forwarded a bunch of money to so that it could start building furnaces and churning out a ton of sapphire. The plant would have been an beautiful cog in Apple's supply chain — located in the US and able to provide it with enough sapphire to use on displays for many of its gadgets — but as it turned out, GTAT couldn't actually make that much sapphire, and it quickly filed for bankruptcy. Though that leaves GTAT in a bad spot, Apple seems to have found a way to repurpose its existing investments. With cloud services becoming increasingly important in Apple's software, a new data center certainly can't hurt.

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7965879/apple-sapphire-plant-turning-into-data-center

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Not as nice as their UFO though 

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2 billion dollars ? That's like... More than I will ever see in my life.. (Hope not actually ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )

 

Well, Apple will probably make it back later on and closing the Sapphire plant was probably better, because that did not become a success.

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2 billion dollars ? That's like... More than I will ever see in my life.. (Hope not actually ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )

 

Well, Apple will probably make it back later on and closing the Sapphire plant was probably better, because that did not become a success.

 

time to start hyper inflation then

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time to start hyper inflation then

Who knows, maybe I was talking about the Zimbabwean dollar already..

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So who is making the Sapphire glass now? 

 

No one. GT screwed up the process entirely and it set everything back. The amount of sapphire that cell phone makers would need is absurd at best

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wow, i read AMD instead of apple and got confused for a second lol

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So who is making the Sapphire glass now? 

most high end watches ($100+) use sapphire or better. all my watches besides my pebble uses sapphire.

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