Apple announced plans Monday to open a new campus in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area. Apple will spend over $1 billion on the campus, and it will employ 3,000 people working on technology including software engineering and machine learning. [...]
Apple’s expansion will be located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area, which gets its name from nearby North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
— CNBC
While Apple's announcement this week boasted big numbers for its various expansion goals within the U.S. in general, and in North Carolina specifically, details on planning and design of the new campus in the Research Triangle area have not been revealed yet.
In 2019, the company broke ground on its new $1 billion, 3-million-square-foot campus in Austin, Texas.
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North Carolina gave Apple $1b in "incentives" to develop there and even rewrote existing laws to make such stupendous idiocy possible.
But that pales beside Austin, which is giving Apple $8.6b in tax rebates.
Meanwhile Apple has announced a $90b stock buyback.
U$A!
it pays to be have money!
Man, that Tim Apple guy sure is rich.
There's so many models of urbanism, why is it tech/corporate always opt for a watered down version of 1950s? Even these lack the monumentality and experience of Saarinen's work for Bell Labs, etc.
It's amazing the kind of self-imposed small thinking that an unlimited budget can produce -- no good architecture, no good urbanism, just junky sci-fi dystopia.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3058823/how-apple-google-and-facebook-are-stuck-in-the-20th-century
https://www.archpaper.com/2019/03/eero-saarinen-bell-labs-photovoltaic-skylight-facadesplus/
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