Apple announced plans Wednesday to build a state-of-the art data center in Waukee, Iowa.
The company said it will invest $1.375 billion to build the data center, creating more than 550 construction and operations jobs in the Des Moines area. It also said it would contribute an additional $100 million to a fund to improve infrastructure and community development projects in Waukee.
Apple will join Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, and Microsoft by building a data center in Iowa. Tech companies are increasingly choosing to locate data centers in the U.S., in part out of concerns about data security that arise when they locate data centers outside of the United States.
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