<idle speculation> With Apple about to open a giant data-center in North Carolina, they've clearly put some thought into what kind of servers they will be runni

<idle speculation> With Apple about to open a giant data-center in North Carolina, they've clearly put some thought into what kind of servers they will be running in there, and there's little chance that it will be full of Xserves. If Google goes to the trouble of building its own servers, then a hardware company like Apple would almost certainly go to even greater lengths. My theory? Their data-center runs on low-power iOS servers with custom-designed ARM CPUs and the same small Flash-SSDs that go into the new MacBook Airs. The Xserve probably looks like an antique to Apple staff who have seen whatever cool tech is appearing in their new data center.