iTunes, by all measures, is a runaway success. But success always comes with a price. The server load that iTunes imposes is nothing short of mind-boggling. The data and bandwidth requirements are so severe that Apple is building a $1 Billion server farm in North Carolina to cope with them.
That's ONE BILLION DOLLARS worth of hard drives and fiber optics, cables and cooling units, designed for nothing more than to send music to the remotest corners of the world.
That's a lot of Coldplay.
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solar farms, wind farms, now a server farm? Do they have cows?
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