As a response to a strict new law in China that requires companies to store users’ data in the country, Apple is opening its first data center in China. Growing global demands to build facilities that store online data closer to the customers have already led Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook to build data centers in Germany, the Netherlands, France and other countries.
The new Apple data center is following this worldwide trend for security and sovereignty of digital data. Also, Apple, while still the most successful foreign technology company in China, had to catch up with Amazon, Microsoft and IBM, which have already formed partnerships with Chinese companies to offer cloud computing services based in China.
“The addition of this data center will allow us to improve the speed and reliability of our products and services while also complying with newly passed regulations,” Apple provided.
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