Apple to Build $1.9 Billion Data Centers in Denmark, Ireland

by Ville Heiskanen

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. plans to spend 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) building data centers in Ireland and Denmark in its biggest-ever European investment, with the facilities set to run services such as iTunes and maps.
The centers, located in County Galway, Ireland, and Denmark’s central Jutland, will be powered by renewable energy, Cupertino, California-based Apple said in a statement on Monday. The facilities are scheduled to begin operations in 2017.
Apple joins rivals including Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in building data centers in northern Europe, whose chilly climate helps save on equipment cooling costs. Google runs a data center in Finland and in September announced plans for a facility in the Netherlands, and Facebook has one in Sweden.

The two data centers each measure 166,000 square meters, Apple said.
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