Apple Plans To Build $50 Million Reno Technology Park

Besides its spaceship facility that is undergoing finishing touches in Cupertino, California, tech giant Apple is planning to build a 30,000-square-foot building in Washoe County, Tessera Tourism District in Reno. The half-city block of land would house a $50-million data center called Reno Technology Park. Initially, Apple wanted to lease the land, but Apple is considering buying the land instead.

The land for the planned Reno Technology Park is on the southeast side of E 6th St. and Evans Ave. The area has a few restaurants, but Apple plans to build the new facility on an unused parcel of land, 9to5Mac reports. Apple has been discussing with the Reno City Council since 2012 the new facility, a data center, also called Project Isabel.

On Wednesday, May 10, the Reno City Council would begin discussions on the purchase by Apple of the future site of the planned Reno Technology Park. Besides the data center, Apple also plans to build a purchasing and receiving facility within the park, MacRumors reports. If the plans push through, it would be Apple’s second data center.

Apple runs one data center in Reno which it has been expanding. It would have 14 buildings spread within 412,000 square feet of land once completed. The Cupertino-based tech giant plans to construct the planned Reno Technology Park adjacent to the first data center.

Meanwhile, while the Reno City Council would discuss the planned Reno Technology Park this week, the first of Apple’s 12,000 employees began moving on May 1 into the Apple Park, more known as the spaceship, Digital Trend reports. The land where it built the 176-acre campus used to be owned by Hewlett-Packard. Besides offices, the spaceship features the Steve Jobs Theater, a subterranean auditorium that could seat 1,000 people. The auditorium has a 20-foot-tall glass cylinder which is 165 feet in diameter to support its metallic carbon-fiber roof.