More Drone's-Eye View Footage Of Apple's New Spaceship Campus

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That guy that flies a drone over Apple's new spaceship campus to record construction progress is at it again. It looks like there has been significant progress since the last time he posted on of these videos.
 
Just finished the video. That was impressive. Seems like such a feat to build things so big.
 
Workers will be doing lots of walking in that design.

Only the low paid drones will be doing the walking. The management will have offices next to the important areas and meeting places, or will have assistants to go pick stuff up from them.
 
I wonder how much of their total power will be provided by solar, as a daily percentage. Also, why not solar on the giant flat parking decks as well?

I also wonder if geothermal HVAC is practical for something that large or if they had to go with the massive air coolers.

Think that they invested as much into the building's IT. All offices wired for 1gbs or did they shell out for 10gbs? Man, think about the length and number of runs they must have inside.
 
I wonder how much of their total power will be provided by solar, as a daily percentage. Also, why not solar on the giant flat parking decks as well?


You can see there is solar panel type somethings on the at least some of the completed parking decks.

Really cool footage using drones, kinda makes you wonder what drone footage of massive defense or auto industry plants of yesteryears would have looked like if they had HD cameras and drones back then.
 
Saw this earlier today just after it was posted to YouTube (was just looking for it yesterday since I know the guy that creates them usually puts up a new one in the first week of each month). I'm still pretty awed by the sheer scope of this project, to be honest, it's just construction on such a massive scale as to barely be believable in today's world but I suppose Apple just had mad crazy bank to do it (and still > $200 billion in cash reserves I think).

Supposedly the solar panels on "the spaceship" as it's being nicknamed will provide 16 megawatts of power and they'll have on-site power cells also - I have to wonder what the actual draw from the facility itself will be and if Apple will ever actually provide that info when it's up and running full bore.

It's just so damned big it's crazy, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to work there in one part to find out someone wants to see me in another. I'm pretty confident they'll be using some kind of energy efficient vehicles of some kind (no, not stupid "hover boards" but perhaps a shitload of Segway scooters and the like). They'll have shuttle service like every 15 minutes from the main parking facility to the spaceship itself in various locations on the outer ring but even so, it's just insanely massive (implied pun intended). :D
 
I was at Apple HQ last summer - already a massive collection of buildings. The security is very tight - hell I couldn't even pee without raising my hand and being escorted to the iComode. I bet this place has increased security.
I wonder what their are going to do to the old buildings (at 1Infinite loop?) Just a curiosity.
 
well I guess this answers the question of what to do when you have 215 billion dollars in cash... that building is really cool looking, though I have to wonder how much it was a result of the walled garden jokes. All joking aside that really does look like they wanted to build a biodome in the center decided it would freak people out. mini clean rooms, three foot concrete pours, well it will not have any bugs in there except the ones they let in or write in the code. grin.
 
I was at Apple HQ last summer - already a massive collection of buildings. The security is very tight - hell I couldn't even pee without raising my hand and being escorted to the iComode. I bet this place has increased security.
I wonder what their are going to do to the old buildings (at 1Infinite loop?) Just a curiosity.

They will utilize both campuses, Apple Campus 1 and Apple Campus 2
 
The conspiracy/futurist/naysayer/pessimist in me had a thought when I watched that video yesterday: imagine they finish this project, get it totally done, it's all 100% up and running and people have moved into basically every available office and work space in the spaceship as well as all the supporting facilities around it and then...

California gets hit with a massive earthquake that basically wrecks or even outright destroys the entire project.

Yeah, I cover pretty much all the bases, unfortunately, and that means the negatives too as I try to see all the angles all the time. :p
 
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Come on apple you let a government better designed and there was first
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GCHQ
 
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