Apple's €850 million data center at Derrydonnell Woods near Athenry, County Galway, first announced in 2015, was never built. Apple won planning permission in 2016 but dropped the project in 2018 after legal challenges delayed it. Galway County Council granted a five-year extension in 2021; a resident and the group Eco-Advocacy challenged it, and in June 2022 the High Court quashed the extension, so Apple would now need an entirely new application to build there.
In Denmark, Apple bought a 285-hectare site at Aabenraa in 2017 for a planned $921 million data center, then cancelled it in June 2019, put the land up for sale, and said it would instead grow its nearby Viborg data center. Aabenraa's mayor, Thomas Andresen, called the cancellation "an undesirable bump" in the town's efforts to build jobs around data centers.
In the United States, Apple's $1.3 billion Waukee, Iowa data center, announced in 2017 with about $214 million in incentives, did not open its first building until October 2024; Apple has not applied to build the additional buildings once planned for its 2,000 acres there. In Maiden, North Carolina, where its campus already spans about a million square feet, Apple is adding a 237,600-square-foot building, a $175 million investment. Nevada approved $62.2 million in tax abatements in August 2024 for Apple to expand its Reno-area data center. Apple has also begun shipping AI servers from a Houston factory that a source told the Houston Business Journal will supply sites including Mesa, Arizona and Maiden.
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