Apple wants to build 324,000 square feet of office space in North Carolina
Apple has officially filed the paperwork to move ahead with the first stage of its plans for construction on its Research Triangle Park campus in North Carolina.
Apple's planned North Carolina campus will sit near Raleigh
Five years after its plans leaked in 2018, Apple finally appears to be making headway on its North Carolina campus.
The campus, which could house more than 3,000 workers, calls for buildings up to 73 feet tall, up to 8 stories, and sits on 281 acres of land.
According to WRAL Tech Wire, Apple filed the paperwork on May 30, and had begun applying for permits within Wake County in August 2022. The permits were related to clearing land and managing stormwater before construction officially began.
The Research Triangle Park is the largest research park in the United States, comprising 300 companies across 7,000 acres and employing 65,000 workers. Apple is expected to hire around 2,700 people by 2032 in the sector.
Apple is currently occupying a MetLife office building in Cary until the new campus is complete. It completed $19.3 million in renovations on the building alone.
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Apple's planned North Carolina campus will sit near Raleigh
Five years after its plans leaked in 2018, Apple finally appears to be making headway on its North Carolina campus.
The campus, which could house more than 3,000 workers, calls for buildings up to 73 feet tall, up to 8 stories, and sits on 281 acres of land.
According to WRAL Tech Wire, Apple filed the paperwork on May 30, and had begun applying for permits within Wake County in August 2022. The permits were related to clearing land and managing stormwater before construction officially began.
The Research Triangle Park is the largest research park in the United States, comprising 300 companies across 7,000 acres and employing 65,000 workers. Apple is expected to hire around 2,700 people by 2032 in the sector.
Apple is currently occupying a MetLife office building in Cary until the new campus is complete. It completed $19.3 million in renovations on the building alone.
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I did some googling and it appears that North Carolina revoked its original bathroom law, but replaced it with something 50% weaker. I.e., it's no longer illegal to use the wrong bathroom, but if you do, and the owner stops you, you will have no legal recourse to sue the owner. That's still fairly restrictive.
Apparently Apple considers the new law "good enough." I'm surprised. Has Apple caved on transgender issues?
North Carolina's current governor, a Democrat, unseated the Republican governor five years ago in part because of this bathroom law. But North Carolina still has a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and voted for Trump. That's another reason to be surprised Apple would move there.
They're forgetting that Apple never lets politics, either good or perverted, interfere with making a comfortable profit. It chatters endlessly about privacy but for many years has done most of its manufacturing in China, the largest and most technologically intrusive regime in human history. Only Covid-related production problems and rising labor costs are forcing it to move production elsewhere.
We see the same behavior with app availability. When a one-party dictatorship such as China wants Apple to remove an app that aids pro-democracy demonstrations, it does so without complaint. But when the democratic Netherlands insists that Apple quit taking a 30% share of the income from dating apps, Apple turns defiant.
Apple's corporate policy is obvious and consistent. Money rules. Nothing else matters.