Building any type of long term business in Nevada or other desert states in the west is foolish. They already have a water supply problem. When it gets worse there will be rationing all of the time and eventually it will need to be trucked in. Maybe when the water is gone Apple can pay employees to stay in a nearly abandoned city just the way seamen get paid for staying at sea for months at a time. They can rotate employees and have food shipped to the facility since there won't be any grocery stores open there.

The western desert states aren't out of water yet but they're getting there fast. Maybe all of the tax breaks make it worthwhile.
 

I'm glad to see Apple investing in data centers but I'd like to see more and faster growth in this segment. Anything to speed up and add redundancy to their cloud-based services is fine by me. Let's get a dozen of these for the US and one all the other countries to share.

I hope they dedicate about 5% of this data center to simply supporting the Contacts section of iCloud. It's slow. 

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Building any type of long term business in Nevada or other desert states in the west is foolish. They already have a water supply problem. When it gets worse there will be rationing all of the time and eventually it will need to be trucked in. Maybe when the water is gone Apple can pay employees to stay in a nearly abandoned city just the way seamen get paid for staying at sea for months at a time. They can rotate employees and have food shipped to the facility since there won't be any grocery stores open there.

 

The western desert states aren't out of water yet but they're getting there fast. Maybe all of the tax breaks make it worthwhile.
 

Reno gets quite a bit of snowpack runoff. They have their up years and down years. Nevada means snow on top in Spanish. It is a big state with many different climate categories. It is difficult to predict rainfall amounts from year to year because there is a lot of climate change going on worldwide lately.

Take a look at a map, Dr. Doom. Reno is at the eastern foot of the snowy Sierra Nevadas, where melted snow usually fills our bathtubs all summer long.

In related news, Apple is buying Las Vegas and renaming it iVegas!

Ya know what... Screw this.  They missed out on Motorola Mobility. They missed out on the largest wireless spectrum auction in history. Apple should spend every available cent they have buying up every patent on planet earth. And also pick up that little squashed bug on the windshield called Nokia while they're at it.

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In related news, Apple is buying Las Vegas and renaming it iVegas!

Las Vegas and Apple are not a good fit. Perhaps they should buy Radiator Springs. Oh Wait...Cars Land is in Anaheim.

After a brief study of the map/drawing I find it interesting that even though it is a recent drawing there are three different references to Nevada Bell, Bell Telephone of Nevada and Bell Telephone all of which are no longer in existence. It is quite common for telecommunications network domains to support legacy naming such as sbc.com or pacbell.net but I find it curious to see it on plot plans for easements. Although I did see some paint highlighting on the street recently marking underground cables for MCI.