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Seven years later, Apple data center in Iowa finally opens

Begun in 2017, Apple’s $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa, has at last opened — at least partially.

Apple’s data center in Waukee, Iowa, is finally operational (Source: Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register)

Apple has technically had data centers that took longer to build, but only because protests ultimately led to the abandonment of one in Athenry, Ireland. In the case of Waukee in Dallas County, Iowa, Tim Cook himself gave a speech about it in 2017, saying that he hoped Apple would help the local community.

Seemingly nothing then happened for five years, until 2022, when Iowa authorities reportedly reviewed Apple’s plans. Then in August 2024, Apple applied to the city for permission to rehabilitate some of the land it bought, aiming to create a wetland restoration area around the data center.

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