Timeline Feed

2012 AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for 2012 using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

How to Use This Feed

Feed items are ordered by the strongest public timeline year available for each tracked facility. Use the HTML page for scanning and the XML endpoint for readers, alerting, or downstream tooling.

Chronological Entries

Amazon Web Services — AP-SOUTHEAST-2 Sydney Region
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2012
Operational300 MW

Amazon Web Services AP-SOUTHEAST-2 — the Sydney region — is AWS's primary Australian cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in November 2012. Operating across three availability zones across facilities in the greater Sydney area, it serv

Meta — Clonee AI Data Center Campus
Clonee, County Meath, Ireland
2012
Operational288 MW

Meta's Clonee campus in County Meath was the company's first data center outside the United States, opening in 2012 and expanded continuously since. The campus now spans 288 MW of IT capacity across multiple buildings and serves as Meta's p

Apple — Maiden, North Carolina Data Center
Maiden, North Carolina, United States
2012
Operational200 MW

Apple's flagship data center campus in Maiden, North Carolina opened in 2012 and remains one of the company's largest and most important US facilities. The campus spans roughly 500,000 square feet of raised floor space across multiple build

Apple — Prineville, Oregon Data Center
Prineville, Oregon, United States
2012
Operational120 MW

Apple's Prineville, Oregon data center is one of the company's largest and most important facilities, hosting iCloud infrastructure and increasingly AI inference workloads for Apple Intelligence. Located in the high desert of Central Oregon

Microsoft West Des Moines AI Datacenter Cluster
West Des Moines, West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
2012
Operational

Microsoft's West Des Moines, Iowa datacenter cluster is a long-running Azure infrastructure footprint that hosted major AI training work for OpenAI. Microsoft says it opened its first West Des Moines datacenter in 2012, added two more campu