https://aidatacenterindex.com/year/2012/feed/ Chronological feed for 2012 using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility. https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-sydney-ap-southeast-2-australia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-sydney-ap-southeast-2-australia.html Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Operational | 300 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 https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/meta-clonee-ireland-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/meta-clonee-ireland-ai-data-center.html Clonee, County Meath, Ireland | Operational | 288 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 https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-maiden-north-carolina-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-maiden-north-carolina-data-center.html Maiden, North Carolina, United States | Operational | 200 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 https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-prineville-oregon-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-prineville-oregon-data-center.html Prineville, Oregon, United States | Operational | 120 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 https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-iowa-ai-training-campus.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-iowa-ai-training-campus.html West Des Moines, West Des Moines, Iowa, United States | 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