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Apple Campus 2: Updated plans, imagery, launch date: photos

Summary: Apple has updated the plans for its new Apple Campus 2 'Spaceship' design, along with an estimated completion date of mid-2016.

By Zack Whittaker for Between the Lines | November 22, 2012 -- 12:27 GMT (04:27 PST)

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From the 45-degree wireframe model view looking towards the south-east, the campus will include a bevy of buildings alongside the main donut-shaped campus. It will include two major parking structures, a fitness center, R&D buildings and site access buildings, used by the firm's security team.

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650,000 square feet

of solar panels will produce about 18 MW of power under ideal conditions. I wonder if it will be enough to take them off the grid. With 13,000 people there, just turning on everyone's computers is going to suck down about ten percent of that.

baggins_z
22 November, 2012 14:27

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when...

This fails, I'd like to see this stuff being put into real companies, not toy companies.

kikax
23 November, 2012 19:01

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- If solar power fails why would you want to see it proliferate?
  
  And why would it fail? Not that it would, but that comment doesn't make sense.
  
  Tigertank
  24 November, 2012 08:27
  
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  - I think he was referring to Apple failing
    
    because in his world view, some jobs (like, I would guess building cars) are morally superior to other jobs (like designing CPUs or building yachts, I would guess), and therefore the morally inferior jobs should be eliminated and those people be shepherded into morally superior work.
    
    baggins_z
    24 November, 2012 17:02
    
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Looks Great in Sunshine

Can't help thinking that when it rains, they'll need 14,200 umbrellas.

WebSiteManager
26 November, 2012 14:35

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