Apple will build its first data centre in China to support services such as iCloud for local users. The project is also designed to help Apple comply with Chinese laws that require global companies to store information within the country. The new data center will be entirely based on renewable energy, and will be built and run in cooperation with Guizhou on the Cloud Big Data, Bloomberg reports, citing an Apple statement. Apple also said it intends to migrate Chinese users’ information, now stored elsewhere, to the new facility in coming months.
"The addition of this data centre will allow us to improve the speed and reliability of our products and services while also complying with newly passed regulations," Apple said. "Apple has strong data privacy and security protections in place and no backdoors will be created into any of our systems," the company added.
