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It turns out that Apple plans to spend 500 million yen to renovate the temporary office until the new campus to be built in North Carolina, USA.
To prepare for the new campus
In April 2021, Apple announced that it would make a huge investment of $ 430 billion over the next five years, creating more than 20,000 new jobs. As part of this, the company plans to invest $ 1 billion in North Carolina to build a new engineering and research center and employ more than 3,000 people.
In fact, Apple has secured about 280 acres (about 25 Tokyo Domes) at Research Triangle Park (RTP) near the state capital Raleigh, and will build a new campus from the latter half of 2018. Was preparing.
In addition, according to news site MacRumors, Apple is planning to set up a temporary office space in Cary, southwest of Raleigh, as it will take several years to complete the new campus.
500 million yen just for repair
Apple will use one of the three campuses built by US insurance company MetLife (Japanese corporation is MetLife Life) as a temporary space with a total area of over 220,000 square feet (about 20,000 square meters). It is expected to be.
Apple wants to avoid major changes and spending due to the short tenure, but it will still cost about $ 5.5 million for the refurbishment. Behind the creation of a new large-scale campus other than Apple Park, it is believed that the aim is to avoid soaring prices in San Francisco and to recruit excellent human resources from a wide range of regions by decentralizing offices.
Source: MacRumors
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Source: iPhone Mania