Shortly after the announcement, Apple recently held a signing ceremony for the iCloud North China Data Center Project Cooperation Agreement in Wulanchabu, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which will be Apple's first data center in northern China, It is also the second data center established in China.
Under the agreement, Apple will set up iCloud North Data Center in Wulanchabu and register the entity to be responsible for the construction and operation of the project, which is expected to be operational in 2020 to provide iCloud services to Apple users in China.
Wondering why the election was held in Wulanchabu, the city is located in the 'golden latitude' of the internationally recognized cloud computing industry with sufficient electricity, with an annual average temperature of 4.3 ° C and a PUE value of under 1.26 without any action , Can make the efficiency of the data center to the mechanism.
iCloud is a cloud service provided by Apple that allows users to store 5GB of data for free, after the data was transferred to overseas servers by Apple.According to China's latest "Network Security Law" on June 1, 2017, States that all Chinese citizen or territory data related to the broadly defined national security issue must be stored on a server in China and the operator of the cloud service must be a local company.
That is to say, since July last year, Apple has signed an iCoud cooperation agreement with the Guizhou Provincial Government and Wulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to operate iCloud service data across China, implying that all Chinese users' iCloud files have been migrated to Here, shorter distances to the data center provide higher and faster download speeds, while on the other hand, iCloud data for Chinese and Chinese users in China and the rest of the world will have a more secure privacy.